Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collins, a brother and sister, play outrageous tricks on a world with a rigid sense of propriety. They exploit sentimentality by feigning an accidental meeting under the clock at the Biltmore, pretending to be long-lost siblings, leaving onlookers with a happy tale they will tell and retell. They mock tradition and rumor by registering as newlyweds in a motel, and asking for separate rooms because she is shy. But finally it is society that has the last laugh. Several years after Johnnie dies, Sallie learns that people had (falsely) accused them of incest. Even Sallie Collins can't laugh...
...wonder how these directors can draw so wide a range of wiggle, giggle, and grind out of their females; this director, David Tihmar, has done it splendidly. Pansy (Nicholas Little-field) does a "Slow Twist" which sends all her manufactured hipbones into excruciatingly mock-suggestive spins and slides; Ben Mason as Wholsa Hardy adds a presumably affectionate and completely successful leer to her most innocent remarks; and Toby Walker, if he is not exactly of the Bolshoi, knows both how to spring about and to adopt the listless, tragic pose of the Artburnover at the same time as she seduces...
...which he plays Getting to Know You with a pig-tailed hoyden named Toni Marcus. His violin is more to him than a tool for saving symphony orchestras, although in the past seven years he has earned more than $3,000,000 for various symphonies by appearing as mock-serious soloist at benefit concerts. He plays the fiddle every day at home and says it helps him when he is in a morose mood...
Gardner's appeal for continued support of the United Nations despite the Special Fund project in Cuba was echoed by Senator Thurston B. Morton (R-Ky.). Following Gardner's speech, Morton told the mock General Assembly that if the United States cut contributions because of dissatisfaction with the Cuba project, it would undermine its demand that other nations, especially the Soviet Union, must contribute to projects that they do not like...
...briefing officer, Second Secretary Nikifor M. Levchenko, told the Harvard group, representing the Soviet Union in the mock U.N. assembly, that America's two-party system is preventing acceptance of Russia's reasonable compromise permitting three on-site inspections annually under a nuclear test ban treaty. He suggested that the Kennedy Administration is forced to press for more "unnecessary" inspections to satisfy its opponents...