When I arrived at school in my military guise, my teacher looked puzzled.
In my other guise as a TV presenter, I've done my fair share of "pieces to camera", where you gawp down the lens and pretend to be talking directly to the viewer at home, even though you don't know who they are and don't really care whether they live or die just so long as they don't switch off.
After all, the projects I've been able to sell to the studios (thanks to my proffered guise as a playwright-of-integrity), have satisfied my desire for researching and writing about lofty and socially relevant topics -- such as the war in Iraq, the Swiss banking scandal, the early AIDS-activism fight against the big pharmaceuticals.
At least I think that's what it is; my other guise is as an indie music journalist OK? It's a nice touch actually and, as at Twickenham earlier, the crowd are impeccably behaved.
I'll happily continue to serve on the reunion planning committee, but I must do something to disabuse this dear lady of my Peter Pan guise.
My recent matched guise experiment (cf. Lambert et al. 1967) with 60 Ligurian participants demonstrates that while Genoese receives high ratings on par with Italian on a number of social characteristics (i.e. solidarity, linguistic capabilities), these covert prestige marks are generally reserved for male speakers and not female ones.
The adoption process had ups and downs too, and at one point – out of sheer exasperation – she and Steve made a mock-up flyer headed Be My Child, in the guise of the Be My Parent pamphlets, listing exactly what they had to offer as parents.
I could send in coupons for samples of nail polish, freckle cream, bust-developer from the cheap magazines I read; put Cutex nail polish on my mouth in the guise of lipstick when I thought my grandmother was downtown; make messes in the kitchen trying overambitious candies like marshmallows — a sticky, gelatinous mixture hopefully cut in cubes and rolled in floury sugar.
