Word: pretenders
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...Eleven sketch, and there was, like, eight of us sitting on a couch, and we were all laughing because not one of us looked anything like the person we were playing--Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. Sometimes you just kind of make something up: O.K., I'm gonna pretend that Julia Roberts always has her mouth open. You just try to pick one thing and see if it flies...
...bloodlust. "The day Sony launches [the new PlayStation], and they walk right into Halo 3." Microsoft is expected to announce that Xbox 360 will play Halo 2 and other Xbox games.) But there's still a significant demographic that for some reason doesn't consider wiggling a joystick to pretend they're shooting somebody a major priority in their lives. To woo this wider group, video games will have to get easier, more approachable, and they will have to expand into genres that don't yet exist...
...sing about sex in front of every guy I ever liked,” says Jarcho. “I also got to pretend to be a rock star, write songs without knowing any notes, and play the drums, which is the funnest thing in the world...
...Gulag for the crime of being captured by the Germans. There's another kind of ambivalence about V-E day in those states that were once part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact; many viewed the defeat of Nazism as simply a change of occupier. "We cannot pretend that May 9 was a day of liberty and independence for Poland," said Donald Tusk, leader of Poland's center-right Platforma Obywatelska. "For Poland the fight against Hitlerism and communism ended only in 1989." Rather than V-E day, Poles are more likely to recall the 1940 massacre...
...need leadership from the U.S. to mobilize the intellectual and entrepreneurial skills required to effect the transition from an unsustainable fossil fuel world to an environmentally friendlier alternative. It is a cruel hoax to pretend that global warming is not a problem, that Alaskan oil can reduce our dependence on the Middle East, that coal can be cleaned to the point where its environmental footprint is negligible, and that we can be isolated from the problems of poverty and environmental destruction in Africa. We live in an interconnected world. It is our god-given responsibility to ensure that its proper...