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If one measure of a community's success is, as I've been told, its ability to bring like minds together, then I must compliment Celebration, Fla., on at least the one count, of giving us a pretext to correspond.
I love the comments, and they expose the major media's frequent indulgence in propaganda under the pretext of reporting news.
A kiss becomes a pretext for checking out her dental enamel, a stroke of her hair for testing the firmness of the roots--a gawky parody of Ruth's own involuted, detached sexuality.
With help from a dissident member of the royal family, he managed to get out of the country under the pretext of attending an Islamic gathering in Pakistan in April 1991.
I was disappointed that there was no entry for Wilson Goode, the first black mayor of Philadelphia, or for Dick Allen, the first black superstar baseball player for the Phillies, who was traded to St. Louis in the deal that was to bring Curt Flood to Philadelphia, the deal that Flood used as a pretext for challenging the reserve clause.