Word: pseudonym
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...swings, roaring airplanes overhead, and mechanical rifle noises do seem unordinary, as does the intimacy of the films—but these films were not intended to be conventional documentaries. Lockhart was in constant dialogue with the children of Pine Flat—although the name is actually a pseudonym, meant to preserve the town’s anonymity—discussing possible locations and activities for the films. Some of the children’s actions were improvised, though others were scripted; some films were shot as many as ten times. Lockhart created a fiction-as-truth version...
Last month, a promising 18-year-old from Tianjin?given the pseudonym Zhang Nanxing by Chinese newspapers?arrived to start his first year at a university in the northeast. Within days, he was arrested on charges of armed robbery and attempted rape. Seeking money to fund his hours in Internet caf?s, Zhang allegedly stole mobile phones and cash from two girls, then attempted to imitate what he'd learned surfing pornographic websites...
...office with ongoing background checks. Got busted for DUI last week? The boss will find out. And what you do on the Internet at home is no secret either. After Penelope Trunk won an award for writing about sex online, her blushing employer asked her to start using a pseudonym. At the travel sector of one corporation, a manager's spouse was surfing the Net and found a photo album with the company's name on a picture-sharing site. The photos documented a training session, after which co-workers progressed to inebriated nakedness. Because a worker posted the pictures...
...your precocious, dewy-eyed Iowa Writers' Workshop debutants. He attended the M.F.A. program of hard knocks. If his author's bio is to be believed, he was a taxi driver, saloon keeper, bullfighter (really?) and, most notably and relevantly, a boxing trainer and cut man. Toole (a pseudonym) was also the author of the story collection Rope Burns, best known for the short story Million Dollar Baby, which became a movie of the same name. Rope Burns was Toole's literary debut...
...weeks before the impact of the current operations against al-Qaeda becomes apparent. The group has announced a new leader, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, which the U.S. believes is a pseudonym for Egyptian explosives expert Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Despite a large-scale presence of security forces on the streets of Baghdad and a ban on vehicle traffic during prayer time, a suicide bomber Friday killed more than ten people at a Shi'ite mosque...