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Word: pretends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretend to know much about Harvard any more," he added, saying that he will come to his first few Corporation meetings "having had no experience in some of the matters...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Professors to be on Corporation | 1/13/1970 | See Source »

...clinically portrayed and very unappealing. I hate movies that pretend to be arty skinflicks and then don't come through. I Am Curious (Yellow) falls into this category: you see the pair's equipment and you even see them Do It, but it's as exciting as watching the dissection of a frog. My favorite movie love scene was a very brief, certainly non-pornographic, golden. instant in The Immortal Story . She: "Stop. The earth is moving-it's an earthquake." He: "It's not an earthquake." That's all there was, and it might read like bad Hemingway...

Author: By Jeefrey D. Blum, | Title: The Moviegoer'Coming Apart' | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

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