Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...double as playgrounds where tourists can experience "real" versions of screen phantasms. Universal offers a bumpy encounter with a robotic King Kong, whose breath is banana scented. Not to be outdone, Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park has created participation shows like the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, where visitors pretend to be extras along with actors who pretend to be extras on sets that pretend to be sets...
Hiding becomes a tangle of lies -- their own and those of the Poles who, as long as the two have money, pretend to believe them. As life in Warsaw disintegrates, Maciek and his aunt live for months with peasants, then are on the run again. Always, food must be scavenged, shelter of some kind found. Eventually the war ends. Maciek has grown taller, noticed girls, had a kind of boyhood. But he is blighted. "He became an embarrassment and slowly died," writes the author. A man who bears one of the names Maciek used has replaced...
...arrived thinking it meant the male bovine, but when Carpenter and others say "that's a lot of bull," they may not be referring to cattle. "I don't always want to look everything up," admits Harry, who attends English classes at nearby Western Montana College. "So sometimes I pretend to understand when...
...that you're not that interested in," announces Debbie. "Maybe we're maturing at different rates." Maggie's pretty cousin Monica, a few years older, "has to marry" that summer and seethes with resentment at Maggie's brains and freedom. "You're worse than everyone else because you pretend to be so good," she explodes...
Some of the conservative officers in Moscow are trying to pretend the Iraqi collapse never happened. Marshal Viktor Kulikov told a Soviet news agency that Iraqi soldiers had failed, not Soviet equipment. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, said any claim that the gulf war proved the superiority of American arms was "sheer propaganda...