Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing in a place like Hollywood? Maybe it was a case of positive-negative attraction. Maybe it was her postgraduate fascination with F. Scott Fitzgerald, the ultimate Princetonian, fresh from Metro drinking himself to death just one year after Alice MacGraw was born. Fitzgerald wrote: "People in the East pretend to be interested in how pictures are made, but if you tell them anything, they never see the ventriloquist for the doll. Even the intellectuals, who ought to know better, like to hear about the pretensions, extravagances, and vulgarities?tell them pictures have a private grammar and watch the blank...
...evening, Arthur Hiller confided a few observations of his own. "I talked with those Wellesley girls and they said, 'You know, Mr. Hiller, you're going to have a problem with the Harvard guys. You'll be filming a big Hollywood movies on their campus, but they'll pretend to ignore you. They'll keep their cool at all times.' Well, now, I don't think that's so. I was up in Harvard Yard yesterday, walking with Ali McGraw, and you should have seen the freshmen hanging out the windows yelling-Aliiiiiiiii, yoo hoooooo...
...crusaders," says Alice Tepper, 26, a pretty Wellesley graduate who is founder and director of the Council. "If they are polluters, the facts themselves will hit them in the pocketbook. Many Americans seem to prefer cleaner air to an extra dollar of dividend income." Alice Tepper does not pretend to be a pollution expert; she does know how to organize experts who can examine corporate performance. She first got interested in such problems two years ago while working as a securities analyst in a Boston investment firm. A local synagogue requested a portfolio of stocks in companies with minimal defense...
When the fund-raising began, Andrew Imutan took a microphone up on the terrace above the lawn and asked everybody to shut their [sic] eyes and pretend they [sic] were a farm worker's wife in the dusty plains of Delano, California, eating baloney sandwiches for breakfast at 3 a. m. before heading out into the fields. . . . So they all stood there in their Pucci dresses, Gucci shoes, Capucci scarves, either imagining they were grape workers' wives or wondering if the goddamned wind would ever stop. The wind had come up off the ocean and it was wrecking everybody...
...styles, denying the more tragic implications of motivation. And so we see blacks, chicanos, Filipinos dress themselves up with the Klan-cloths of terrorism in their attempts to get Massah to throw them the crumbs. And since Massah knows it's all a charade, he only has to pretend to be scared...