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Meanwhile, everyone would have the comfort of pretending that, in this sad life, all the tragedy and death wasn't simply meaningless.
A site pretending to be Monica's home page (this one isn't out to deceive a soul) makes her a total Southern California teen, whose favorite TV show is "BEVERLY HILLS 90210 (WHAT ELSE?
To Malcolm this is a kind of hypocrisy: flattering the audience by pretending they know something already when he feels pretty sure they do not.
The Republicans are supposed to be pretending that Bill Clinton has committed offenses so heinous that he should be the first president ever forcibly evicted from office.
There's a big dollop of xenophobia here--old mummy pictures are full of stilted English actors pretending to be icily vengeful Egyptians--but there's also a less chauvinistic implication: a rebuke to our Western-imperialist sense of entitlement.