Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whips off the heads of the mannequins. Julia Roberts tells Richard Gere she wants the fairy tale. Cat tells Bat, 'I would love to live with you forever in your castle, just like in a fairy tale. I just couldn't live with myself. So don't pretend this is a happy ending...
Even Bush did not pretend his policy of engagement with Beijing's communist autocrats had influenced them much. His statement found improvements in China's treatment of dissidents "insufficient" and said its policies overall leave the U.S. "deeply disappointed." As if to prove Washington's point, police arrested a lone demonstrator in Tiananmen Square last week and beat foreign journalists who were watching. Also marking the anniversary, Amnesty International reported that thousands of political prisoners are still in jail in China. Says the organization: "Unfair trial, torture, long-term detention without charge or trial and summary executions continue...
...claims that Bean-Bayog drove 28-year-old Paul Lozano to kill himself by making him pretend to be her 3-year-old child have lingered...
Some favorite conservative nostrums would actually cost plenty, such as privatizing public housing or changing current welfare rules that penalize people for taking a job, saving money or keeping their families intact. But conservatives usually pretend the cost doesn't exist. It isn't recalcitrant liberals standing in the way of such reforms. It is a national reluctance to spend the money nurtured by conservatives themselves...
Milosevic continues to pretend that the army units in Bosnia are not doing his bidding. But he has sanctioned a purge of 40 generals that put the army even more firmly under his control. Army ordnance has relentlessly pummeled Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, and other cities. Shells and sniper fire make a target of anyone not cowering in a basement; food supplies are dwindling to a dangerous level. Jovan Divjak, head of the mainly Muslim Bosnian Territorial Defense force, called on non-Serb Sarajevans to fight "even if you have no weapons...