Word: feign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be asked repeatedly about your divorce. You will spend hours trying to figure out the difference between a first cousin once removed and a second cousin. You will feign interest in opera, NASCAR and gun collecting. You will, in all probability, have a wonderful time...
...prepared for the absolute worst conditions: medicines, a small supply of food, purified water and a last minute addition--the "wedding ring" to feign I was married and not an eligible, single, foreigner. I was sufficiently scared by my friends' skeptical glances and explicit State Department warnings. On June 15, in Logan Airport, all I essentially knew about my plans for the following six weeks was that I was going to do thesis fieldwork in a small city called Comitan, in Chiapas, Mexico. The details of how I was going to reach Comitan, what exactly I was researching, and most...
...appreciate what is special and extraordinary in these realms, perhaps because we are dissatisfied with anything less than an unrealizable, theoretical ideal. Romantic pursuits, in their early stages at least, are inherently a realm of uncertainty and exploration, yet we often try hard to mask our vulnerability and instead feign a calm suavity, or play hard to get. In striving for sophisticated execution of the "proper" romantic maneuvers, we miss out on the thrillingly uncertain elements of romance...
...race open for Shakespeare in Love or Life is Beautiful? Will the Academy give Tom Hanks another undeserved Oscar because they refuse to credit Ian McKellan for his portrayal of a gay film director? (the Academy refuses to acknowledge gay actors in gay roles--only straight actors who feign gayness get nominated. Witness the fact they passed over Rupert Everett in My Best Friend's Wedding for Greg Kinnear in As Good As It Gets...
...exhibition also contains advance posters for variety of acts as varied as goats that could spell, animals that could count and canaries that could feign death...