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Pretension is now dictated by whether or not you use the foreign language title for a foreign language movie?
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After that bout of Pretension we shall return shortly to our regular programming of incoherent tirades and rabid foaming.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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But it's depressingly obvious that the play which skewers or at least raises the question of High Art versus Mediocrity (or is it Pretension versus Fun?) collapses under its own profundity at the end.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors Michael Giltz 2010
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But it's depressingly obvious that the play which skewers or at least raises the question of High Art versus Mediocrity (or is it Pretension versus Fun?) collapses under its own profundity at the end.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors Michael Giltz 2010
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But it's depressingly obvious that the play which skewers or at least raises the question of High Art versus Mediocrity (or is it Pretension versus Fun?) collapses under its own profundity at the end.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: Lombardi Scores a Field Goal; La Bete Better for Actors Michael Giltz 2010
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Thank you very much for submitting work to Fancypants & Pretension Quarterly.
Archive 2010-04-01 2010
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After that bout of Pretension we shall return shortly to our regular programming of incoherent tirades and rabid foaming.
We Pontificate, As Is Our Wont, on the Perils of Sentimentality 2009
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Pretension most often comes from the collectors who want you to know that they have a case of '82 Latour, and if you don't know what that is, well, that's because you're an unsophisticated idiot.
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Thank you very much for submitting work to Fancypants & Pretension Quarterly.
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Pretension most often comes from the collectors who want you to know that they have a case of '82 Latour, and if you don't know what that is, well, that's because you're an unsophisticated idiot.
Rants 2009
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