Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while Reardon squirmed, President Bok groaned and Frank McLaughlin experienced internal ecstasy, McGuire, in his own style, hit home at Harvard's dilemma. He opened a tender wound, telling everyone who was busy spooning his chocolate mousse that not even Harvard can pretend to improve its athletics without facing up to the difficulties...
...from a basic flaw: on most campuses, conference planners could not reach the students as a whole or generate sufficient interest to involve more than a handful of people, almost all of whom became delegates. How could delegations hope to implement the conference's policies, and how could they pretend to speak for their schools...
...because it came from a network with a history of excellence and pretensions of continued quality. An inept rip-off of Saturday Night Fever, Flatbush deals with the childish and unfunny activities of several New York teenagers portrayed by actors, who are, without exception, headed for other careers. They pretend they are in Brooklyn while they are, in fact, cavorting on a miserably constructed set in Los Angeles. A mindless and seemingly endless chase scene concluded this monstrosity, which, incidentally, received the perfectly respectable rating of 15.6 and 23 per cent of the audience...
Kirby himself had some strong thoughts about war neurosis: "If the damn thing is there," he said, "let's admit it, not tag it with 'cowardice' or put it in the closet and pretend it doesn't exist...
only interesting development in this later portion of the film is Scott's decision to pretend to produce a porno film so he can interview some studs who come looking for a job, hoping they will lead him to his daughter. There is strong irony here, a sense of real narrative movement that momentarily revives the picture...