Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that he's like nearly everyone else in public life. The "issues" in the Republican campaign are largely Hard Copy topics like adultery, dope smoking, draft dodging and politically correct itineraries for student vacations. On The McLaughlin Group, the Studs of weekend round-table shows, pundits pretend to be pit bulls. On the late-night talk shows opposite Limbaugh's, comedians pause in their mocking of Bush and Quayle to get serious for just a moment, folks, and put in a plug for Clinton...
...culprits, said Kinchla, call from institutions, such as jails, that normally do not accept credit charges. The callers pretend that they have a legitimate need for a quick connection to an outside operator...
...others' characters, we are lost in a sea of words and accusations, whose truth and importance lies beyond cognition. As campaign teams battle with Vietnam, or tax rises, they attempt to sway a public opinion which is unanchored in any certainty. Perot's astuteness is to play `honest', to pretend it's all ready to be understood and changed. But it isn't. Government and politics in the U.S. is an enormously complicated matrix of power upon which bewildered voters are expected to decide every four years. Modern day life--a vast chasm of unknowing. In its place, the theater...
...think the city can turn the other wayand pretend nothing's happened," said Michael H.Turk, cochair of the Cambridge Tenants' Union, apro-rent control organization that has beentracing Walsh's real estate dealings since...
...Bush Administration vetoed the plan. (The Democratic ticket is divided: Clinton supports it, Gore opposes.) Critics call the Oregon scheme "health- care rationing," which is exactly right. But as frustrated defenders of the plan note, we ration care now, except we do it irrationally. We pretend to believe in unlimited health care for all, thereby making it harder to provide decent health care to many. Our refusal to acknowledge that trade-offs are necessary -- including, yes, the ultimate trade-off between money and human life -- makes intelligent debate about intelligent trade-offs impossible...