Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commuter himself, has turned traitor to his class and performed a hatchet job on the commuting world around New York City. He writes not about Suburbia ("dull and demure domesticity") but about Exurbia, his word for the belt just beyond. Unlike many more naive chroniclers, Spectorsky does not pretend that all the suburbs or exurbs are alike. And he records the differences with the thoroughness of a Baedeker and the sincerity of a presentation designed to steal an agency friend's soapflake account.His observations should perhaps be taken with a good deal of salt, but they will form...
...results were not always sidesplitting. Martha Raye proved that slapstick can be tasteless with an interminable skit that required Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to pretend that he was madly in love with her (a role often filled last year by Actor Cesar Romero). Jackie Gleason is back with The Honeymooners, but the show is now filmed by the Electronicam method, which Gleason and the system's inventors (Du Mont) insist is just as good as live TV, from the evidence of the first two shows, not all of Gleason's audience will agree: on film, the battles between Jackie...
...Argentina. Last week the two friends met again briefly in New York, just before Payne flew off to his new assignment. They compared notes on the frustrations of reporting a paradoxical land of blustering dictatorship and seemingly casual living, where bullyboys riot in the streets and solid citizens pretend not to notice. Both Payne and Forbis had their tense moments with the bullyboys, and both were arrested and questioned by Juan Perón's police...
...legislative committee, Miss Janet Moore, a Canadian nurse, pleaded the Fifth Amendment in refusing to name friends who had recommended that she spend her summers at Crystal Lake Lodge at Chestertown, N.Y. and Wingdale Lodge at Wingdale, N.Y., both under investigation as being Communist-run. Miss Moore did not pretend that she feared becoming involved in a criminal prosecution; rather, she insisted that her "own beliefs" prohibited her from naming her friends. Did she have a right to use the Fifth Amendment in such a way? And having used it, should she in any case be granted the U.S. citizenship...
...Jura [his home district] know about NATO? But if I tell them that we can build irrigation canals for their vineyards with the money we don't spend on arms, then they understand." As for Quai d'Orsay criticism of his security pact, he retorted: "You pretend to give Germany her liberty and at the same time oblige her to choose between a pact with the East or the West. That amounts to saying, 'I offer you a chance to spend the night with Martine Carol.* Otherwise you have to spend it with...