Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the boiler rooms are specialized, peddling only phony prizes, perhaps, or fraudulent investments or fake charities. Two subspecialty operations are the "recovery room" and the "badge room." The latter is staffed by callers who pretend to be raising money for families of slain police officers, firefighters or other related (and fake) charities. American Eagle Advertising, which employed 60 solicitors in boiler rooms in Arizona and Georgia, raked in more than $9 million in two years of operation, according to a 67-count federal indictment unsealed in June. Reload men and "recovery room" specialists individually can make in excess...
...wave computers: PCs, smart cell phones, personal digital assistants, stripped-down network computers and so on. "What should Apple do next?" asks Sun CEO and Java evangelist Scott McNealy. "Put 100% energy behind Java. Innovate, compete and add value. That's so obvious to me that I can't pretend there's another strategy...
LaBute says there is a moral: "Be careful about whom you pretend to be, because that is often the person you turn into." But the movie is careful not to give Chad his comeuppance, and the audience must fish for any lessons the story offers. Men are welcome to X-ray their hearts for a hint of Howard or an edge of Chad. Women can take a peek at--and, if they wish, confirm their suspicions of--that dangerous and perplexing house pest, the modern middle-class male. The camera lingers in elegantly immobile, anthropological medium shot--a distance that...
...expects an action picture to be altogether believable, but for anyone who has actually flown on the eponymous aircraft, Air Force One seems a bit less authentic than Attack of the Crab Monsters. To their credit, the filmmakers do not pretend that terrorists masquerading as Russian cameramen could simply stroll onto the President's plane; the script calls for a rogue Secret Service agent to give them their security clearances. Fine--except that even the mechanics on Air Force One work on a buddy system, one keeping tabs on the other. So presumably you need at least two rogue agents...
...warn others they are coming. He had in mind the Americans who thought we could succeed in Vietnam where the French, despite many years of knowledge about Indochinese culture, language and religion, had failed. That knowledge was Old World knowledge, compromising and corrupt. Like Jefferson Smith, we "did not pretend to know." But we brought clean hands. We were not like other nations. We free, we do not colonize. We give, we do not take. We are the original sinless. But the clean hands were those of Lieut. William Calley...