Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went on to quote Strauss as asking: "What about the Pulitzer Prize?" (Safire had just won one.) "I like that, Jody," one listener shot back, and Powell riposted bitterly: "Well, then, that's the first thing this Administration has done that you've liked." Powell also mock apologized for attacking what he called "the imperial press," but said it so sarcastically that the audience grew almost palpably uncomfortable. When he said, "In conclusion," the group burst into derisive applause...
...Tate Gallery. Mellon has thus in a few years given away buildings and works of art worth rather more than $200 million. Even granted the parlous state of the dollar, no other living American has committed himself to art patronage on this scale. (Paul Getty endowed his mock-Pompeian Getty Museum above Malibu, Calif., to the tune of a staggering $700 million, but Getty died in 1976, and very little of the money has been spent...
...wrestling with Carter's bill. Amazed and frustrated that a full year had passed with no energy legislation, Carter on Thursday afternoon told a White House press briefing: "We have wasted twelve months of precious time. We must have energy legislation without further delay." The same day, mock birthday parties for the bill were being celebrated by members of both the House and the Senate. On the House side, Minority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona and fellow Republicans carved up a large doughnut that was meant to symbolize a birthday cake for a bill with a hole...
Steinberg can fill a sheet with figures, each of them drawn in a different style?cubist, pointillist, child art, hatched shading, mock sculptural, hairy scribble, Leger boilerplate, art deco?and display a wide, ironic complicity with art history while making no final commitment to a "way" of drawing. The drawing works because he so obviously possesses each style. It is imitation without flattery. As a dandy, Steinberg owns all the hats in his wardrobe. A still life like Belgian Air Mail 1971, is not a "cubist-type" drawing, a thing done in homage to Braque and Picasso. It is rather...
...stunning exception in this crew is Shields. A child model of astounding beauty, she is also, at least at twelve, a natural actress. It is chilling to watch her come on to Johns, aping the older whores' bedroom spiel in a mock-adult voice; her scenes with men are the movie's best. Though the film does not explicitly show Violet's bedroom activities, Shields is at times a sexual figure. A volatile mixture of both innocence and carnality, she makes the audience feel that anything can happen when she is around...