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Whistler was a very considerable artist, none the less so for being a self-invented man. Perhaps, like West a century before, he was irked by the low status of artists in America; his solution was not to attach himself to a court, as West did, but to pretend to be a native aristocrat. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834, and partly raised in Russia, where his father, an engineer, was designing the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad for Czar Nicholas I. Doubtless the Russian fixation on rank impressed him; in any case, he began to insist quite early...
...truth is very few members of the Michigan Militia, or most of the other armed cadres out there, pose a threat to the security of the U.S. These groups are generally made up of harmless weekend warriors who like to parade around in military gear, relive war memories and pretend that their weapons give them some real control of their lives...
...pregnancy, often because the fetus is deformed and has no chance of survival. Tammy Watts, 30, a California woman who underwent the procedure earlier this year, tearfully told the eight male Republicans who sit on Canady's subcommittee, "Until you've walked a mile in my shoes, don't pretend to know what this is like for me." The subcommittee voted last week to ban that type of abortion...
Like Dr. Johnson's dog walking on its hind legs, it's not that Gingrich does all these things well; it's that he does them at all. Publisher Baen doesn't pretend that Gingrich wrote the novel his name is on, in the sense we understand writing, but he did attend three meetings. "Newt provided the plot and some of the characters, and his co-author wrote a first draft, and then they flopped disks back and forth," says Baen. That may be how the "pouting sex kitten," who twines her fingers in the chest hairs of the main...
Some students try to pretend Harvard is just like every other college by calling the entryways "vertical hallways." This is deceptive logic, though, since climbing stairs to the fifth floor of Matthews is significantly tougher than gliding effortlessly down a normal dorm hall...