Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plus $1,500 in tipping change, to sponsor the rolling bedlam called the Great Gleason Express. Amid the blares of the stuck diesel horns ("BAAAAH!") and a familiar howl ("HOW SU-WEET IT is!"), the dancers, cronies, reporters and flacks attacked 500 Ibs. of assorted meats, 30 cans of mock turtle soup, 2,614 one-shot whisky bottles and, as they dragged into Miami next day, 40 boxes of aspirin and alkalines...
...Using mock-up rooms, he has figured out how small a room can shrink be fore customers will rebel (in low-rate hotels, it can be 71 ft. by 10 ft.). At the New York Hilton, he fitted out a service elevator as a speedy, efficient pantry for Continental breakfasts: one man, instead of the usual three, takes an order on the telephone, warms rolls and pours coffee while the elevator moves, then delivers it to the proper floor. Another Tabler innovation: a strip of black paint in place of black tile on the bottom of closets (saving...
...Carnovsky does, however, pull off this opening scene magnificently. Why, then, reduce himself to a truly "foolish fond old man" who staggers aimlessly about the heath as though he were saying, "Well, lousy daughters run you crazy. What can you do?" And this attitude carries over even into the mock trial, which is busy, unfocussed, and unbelievable...
Adviros in Battle. Students of the institute have an additional exercise unavailable in other language schools: mock warfare is enacted on two sides of a partition, with the student "adviros" (advisers) talking back and forth on the telephone. At the end of the battle, students compare notes to see if they were successfully getting the messages across. By the time a student laughs at the same thing a native laughs at, Gordon figures, he is approaching mastery of the language. For Americans, gaining this kind of mastery in Vietnamese is especially hard. As in Chinese, the same word spoken...
Unfortunately, Hallelujah drowns its troubles in talk, and the sobering effects are compounded by a mock-historical narrator who tries to pinpoint everyone's position on a map from time to time. Lancaster, a commanding presence as always, looks permanently flabbergasted over his first venture into an out-and-out farce, though his attitude seems appropriate to the movie's funniest scene-pondering strategy after a fierce battle waged in a blinding sandstorm, he finds that there hasn't been a single casualty on any side. Actress Remick's pioneer prudery is the standard brand, softened...