Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Come out at ten o'clock and play volleyball.' It's all a woof against capitalism." All this was said to us by a friend from the south side of our town, who calls A Thousand Clowns "absolutely the greatest movie I've ever seen." Sometimes he tries to pretend he doesn't know anything about art, but we know better and respect his opinions...
Leading her charges into the isolation wing, Sara explains that prisoners relegated to the "strip" or "oriental" cells were left naked, without blankets or light. "Try it," she tells a group of students. "Go into the cell, and I'll close the door, and you pretend you have to stay in there alone, 24 hours a day." After five minutes, the kids emerge, solemn-faced and committed to lives of virtue. Next, Sara points down ten stone steps to the "dungeon of Alcatraz." That was where the prison authorities would try to break a man, she explains, "when...
...forcible correction of the child's "defect" remained, however. In Japan there is a deep-seated prejudice against lefthanders that goes back so far in time that its origins are unknown. It is especially strong in rural areas, where teachers used to beat lefthanded pupils, and girls still pretend to be righthanded in order to get married. If their secret is discovered, they run the risk of being divorced...
...most significant thing about the present crisis is that the English people no longer even pretend to take the slight est interest in it. Monetary collapse seems a thoroughly suit able way to celebrate the first anniversary of joining the Common Market, we feel. Our European entry was another event that excited our political leaders and the "heavy" newspapers - this tune to raptures of optimism - but which left the nation bored and mildly skeptical...
...much throw the production out of balance as readjust the emphasis. Hickey does not stand apart, he becomes just another victim. The weight of the play falls on Robert Ryan, whose portrayal of Larry Slade is magnificent. Slade, the rummy poet anarchist, the man who likes to pretend he watches life with cynical dispassion from the grandstand, who claims to invite and welcome death, is a role full of traps. It is hard to separate Slade's sodden grandiloquence ("Go, for the love of Christ, you mad tortured bastard, for your own sake!") from Eugene O'Neill...