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DiCaprio's friend, Ethan Suplee, the big guy in American History X, shows up and tells me about a recent run-in they've had with the paparazzi at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. DiCaprio acts it out. "O.K., pretend you're me. I'm a creepy German photographer," DiCaprio instructs. He does a great creepy German photographer. "So I said to him, 'Oh, so you're one of those scumbags.' And the guy has the audacity to say, 'O.K., we'll leave you guys alone. We'll just take a couple of pictures.' I said...
...homeless man named Damon Paine who was allowed to live at the Co-op for years due to the easy-going attitude of its residents. Even during primal scream, when naked bodies blur by in the yard, Co-opers take it slow in the warmth of Lamont. While they pretend to study, they take off their clothes, piece by piece. Other readers often think the stripping is spontaneous and join in. "You really get a good look," says Kaufman. "It's much more about being naked and less about freezing to death...
...sneaking suspicion that I would be the only girl in the Fleet Center who blow-dried her hair before she went to see steroid-filled men pretend to mortally wound one another wearing uni-suits at WWF's Smackdown!. I even contemplated leaving it wet, but my vanity, and the idea that one of these wrestlers might be cute, got the better of me. So I blow-dried my hair, put on the most non-descript outfit I could think of, and headed to the Fleet Center armed with my mace and two days of beginner Tae Bo videos...
Besides, they can even play at being students after hours. As Lloyd says, "I live next to the Quad, and I can still pretend to be a Harvard student...
...another security guard and manage to dodge him without having to decode his accent. A row of ten or twelve elevators suddenly makes us feel very small. Kurt Loder steps out of one. We smirk, pretend we're not impressed, step on. Twenty-fifth floor please...