This is the biggest weakness of "Good Girls Revolt," which feels more playacted than lived in.
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To break up the monotony, he and Kohan playacted an imaginary TV show called "Djembe," about an African man who was married to a white suburban woman.
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But reporters took those rare rebellious moments and clung to them, trying to create a sense of drama around bigger votes in which she invariably stuck to the party line, even if she playacted a sense of disappointment in the process.
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But in their regularity and quasi-formal structure (a far-right rally met by a far-left counterprotest), these fights have a surreal, ritualized quality that has turned them into media spectacles, which in turn allows them to be consumed nationally as skirmishes in a playacted civil war.
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He describes funerals and visits to people who've lost children and parents, the precise path he walked through Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the final days of Beau Biden's life, his son's memory loss, holding family meetings in which everyone playacted a role for Beau's benefit, the morning he sang to him an old Elton John song enjoyed by the boys when they were little, his vivid dream of his son running again.
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The New York Times Book Review 152 (April 6, 2003): 9. Michael's ultimate crime is that he loses his nerve. He attempts to go to "the ranks of death" with Lara, and he succeeds underwater, but he does not want to confront the voodoo underworld of the island. In a sense, he playacts at facing danger just as he playacted at hunting earlier in the novel.
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Once more, Touhy "playacted" for the men, who left convinced Touhy was more powerful than he really was. According to Touhy, he now approached local law enforcement and retailers and told them about Capone's interest in the western suburbs. He asked them to resist Capone's attempt to get them to sell punchboards or buy low-quality beer, and in turn Touhy said he would resist Capone. The appeal worked.
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Flanagan (1996), pp. 123–125, 348 His official title was "Guru, Viber and DJ". He hosted Zoo Radio, a November 1992 distributed radio special that showcased select live performances, audio oddities, and half-serious interviews with members of U2 and the opening acts. At the group's suggestion, Fallon published a book about the tour entitled U2 Faraway So Close. Later on the tour, he was replaced by Paul Oakenfold, who became one of the world's most prominent club DJs by the decade's end,Flanagan (1996), p. 473 and Colin Hudd. For the 1993 concerts, U2 invited Irish theatre group Macnas to join the tour and perform between the support acts. The troupe wore oversized papier-mâché heads of the members of U2 and playacted a miming parody of them.Flanagan (1996), p.
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