Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, by Norman Mailer. With unabashed language and unblushing candor, the author delineates his own mock-heroic role during last fall's peace assault on the Pentagon...
...site of Six Flags over Texas, an $18 million, 40-acre imitation Disneyland that even Disney employees concede is a "pretty good job." Following Disney's rules, it has thematic sections (one for each flag) and such thrilling rides as the Runaway Train trip through a series of mock 1890s-style hazards. To date, some 11 million paying visitors have loved the park, and the Disneyland Effect has taken place right on schedule: new hotels, motels, shopping centers and apartment projects have appeared in a broad swath around the park, and the fun area has become the center...
...Portis has succeeded in creating in Mattie Ross a triumphant character, with true grit and sand, an original piece of Americana-sort of a Portrait of Whistler's Mother as a Young Girl in Indian Territory. And he has most vividly produced a true mock western: one in which blood flows with the same impact as real tomato soup suddenly gushing out of an Andy Warhol...
CLEOPATRA GOES SLEDDING, by André Hodeir, illustrated by Tomi Ungerer (Grove Press; $3.95). Two wicked crocodiles try to lure a turtle into a boiling soup pot, but the turtle, aided by a mischievous monkey, wins out, and the disappointed crocodiles have to settle for mock-turtle soup...
...creating the styles of such stars of the era as Arthur Fields, Gene Austin, Ruth Etting and Russ Columbo. But Tiny dismisses the notion that he does imitations. "The spirits of singers whose songs I do are living within me," he insists. All this is pathetically easy to mock, yet Tiny's total absorption in his role-what one friend calls "the purity of his madness" -cloaks him in an impervious aura of innocence. Blithely he goes on communing with his windup Victrola and 400 old recordings, and indulging such eccentricities as taking "a big shower" for 90 minutes...