Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that new hero, the chap who is supposedly above class-but if he really is, why does he keep aggressively displaying his non-U traits and compulsively needling Old Blighty's oldest values? With Caine, all this springs from something deeper than dialogue and technique, as does his mock-deadly appeal to women. He acquired these powers on "this long impossible road" from an impoverished Cockney London background through ten years of hardscrabble apprenticeship. "I've never had dramatic training," he says. "I'm a natural who has learned technique by mistakes...
...candidates nominated by Beyer's group gave mock speeches ridiculing the past record of the Young Republicans...
...think of his works as sculpture at all. They are merely exercises in basic design, similar to those that he requires from his students at Manhattan's Hunter College. He built each piece originally in tiny paper tetrahedrons, octahedrons or dodecahedrons. After that, friends constructed the full-scale mock-ups in plywood and painted them with automobile undercoating (only three have been cast in steel). The results, Smith feels, should be called simply "presences...
...escort perennially in top hat and tails, ready for a twirl. Love is the only problem she knows, and that is a somewhat half-witted affair, its contretemps based on misunderstandings that a TV-trained three-year-old could settle in seconds. The battle of the sexes is either mock or bittersweet; one lyric says it all: "We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes/But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes." All this is sexy only by insinuendo-and thus stimulates the imagination more than crasser treatment...
With the Ford Foundation paying the tab, Prettyman Fellows first spend two months studying some 600 cases, holding mock trials and visiting police stations. They get advice from judges, psychiatrists, even bail bondsmen. By midyear, a typical Prettyman fellow is handling no fewer than five misdemeanor cases, ten felonies, a couple of appeals and a constant series of preliminary hearings-all the while attending night classes at Georgetown and writing research papers...