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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news for you and me, but as for Brack . . . he smiles every time he thinks about the vacant house on the Delaware shore where he was planning to spend his summer vacation. "I wanted sun and sand," he says, shrugging. Surveying the endless Saudi desert, he adds, "I'll pretend it's a very wide beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Sep 3 1990 | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...Method-style character analysis. But they say acting study helps nonetheless. Kevin Kraft, 22, is a University of Southern California junior in his second summer as a clown and juggler at Hersheypark; he has also toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Says Kraft: "If I pretend in slow motion to grab for a nonexistent ball, I'd better have a real intention to catch it, which is acting technique, or the comedy falls flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Where The Stagestruck Get Started | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...does not try to form a coherent theory of political transformation in Eastern Europe. He does pretend to have all the answers. But, at the very least, he asks all the right questions...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Looking Back at '89: The Berlin Wall, the Magic Lantern, And the 'Refolutions' That Changed the Face of Europe | 7/20/1990 | See Source »

Naturally, it's no easy task for a ghost to pretend to be a living, breathing human being. And to pass a life-insurance physical? This is one resourceful dead...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Ghostdad Will Have You Die Laughing | 7/13/1990 | See Source »

...pretend that the score doesn't matter. I tell myself I truly appreciate the subtleties of the national pastime. And, I tell myself, the poetic musings of the cleverest newspaper sports columnists convey The Baseball Experience better than any statistic...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Sox Angst Heats Up Yet Again | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

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