Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...level. Part of the problem may be that males, having been the dominant sex for a few millenniums, still tend to prefer females who make them feel stronger and smarter. Any girl who is bright enough to solve a quadratic equation is smart enough to bat her eyelashes and pretend that...
...know it all better than anyone, my performance is flat. I may never get the questions that expose my weaknesses, but if I know they're there, waiting to be discovered, then I can be as mediocre as anyone. So I have to know it all. I never pretend. I'm too afraid of making a mistake...
...young couple elope. At heart, though, the story is about the deep, complex, poignant love a man has for his daughter: it's the Lolita syndrome without the lust but with every bit of the doting possessiveness. Annie's budding maturity means that George can no longer even pretend he is young; her engagement is a renunciation of their old flirtatious bond. "I was no longer the man in my little girl's life," he says with a sigh. For this father, a wedding is a funeral...
COMMUNISM, if anyone other than 1.1 billion Chinese remembers what that is, used to work something like this: You pretend to work, and we pretend to pay you. Let's do the same for this embryonic snit: The IOP pretends to bring Duke, and we pretend to freak out. It's efficient, satisfying and over in a flash...
Bush's behavior, representing what Israeli Health Minister Ehud Olmert called "an administration that doesn't try or pretend to show, even for appearances, some amount of friendship" to Israel, only serves to threaten the current peace talks...