Word: pretenders
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...girls for what they really are. The flashes of harsh, white light strip Fifi's face of her makeup - and her contrivance. In that freeze-frame instant, Fifi isn't a sexy sophisticate, just an innocent girl searching for love. In a place called Babylon, where Shanghai babies pretend to be women...
...approach to life for many years has been ascetic, robust and provisional. Every mortal lives with the fact of his own death. Most people are not disabled by the thought; they are able to forget about it, on most days. We pretend we are immortal. And of course, we are... for the moment. Proceed as if, until notified otherwise. People with a history of heart attacks, like me and Cheney, do, however, listen to the engine more carefully than most drivers. We cock an ear inward. We experience, on some days, an unusual sense of vulnerability...
...have become addicted to the supply of news from Washington. It's a reliable and steady flow of material. That's nothing to be sneered at. The general alternative is even worse: the mindless pablum of celebrity journalism, the endless stories about self-promoting actors and movie stars who pretend they dislike the press...
Many government officials pretend that they ignore what the press says about them. Not Colin Powell...
Step off. Bill Clinton has done nothing wrong, and y'all are just a bunch of player haters. Just because the guy worked hard on his last day at the office--a day most people would take a long farewell lunch and pretend to be touched by that We'll Miss You card signed by co-workers they don't know--everyone is all over him. And if anyone knows what it is like to work hard and do your best and still get picked on by the media, it's me. That's mostly because I'm paranoid...