Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee considered several suggestions: "Our closets fit two comfortably," "We bring new meaning to the 'screw your roommate' dance," "We gladly feast on those who would suppress us" and "We are what you pretend...
...certainly loves her daughter Charlotte (Alejandra Podesta). She is beguiled by Charlotte's grace, her easy imperiousness, her ease with languages, her virtuosity at the piano. And she refuses to accept what is evident to all: that Charlotte, now on the cusp of womanhood, is a dwarf. The townspeople pretend to ignore it. But one fellow, the aging stranger Ludovico D'Andrea (Marcello Mastroianni), sees Charlotte's disability as a sweet eccentricity, like a birthmark or an overbite. Ludovico has been courting Dona Leonor in his fashion, and someday he will be a doting stepfather to the girl. He will...
Another option is to harass all the vendors that line either side of Brattle Street. Pretend to try on a hat with garish flowers while admiring yourself in their grime-streaked mirrors. "Aw, don't I look cute?" When they're not looking, pluck off all of the flowers and stick them in your backpack. Mom'll love a surprise packet of cheap plastic flowers...
Things have time to settle now that the postseason is dead. Here's hoping Fehr and Ravitch get up the courage to meet with each other once in a while to pretend things are really happening on the negotiation front...
...proposed slogan "We are what we pretend to be" refers to Adams House's reputation for being "the Euro-trash crowd sitting in the corner of the dining hall smoking," said Committee Co-Chair Annette Kazmerski...