Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fortunately, any one of the pictures in Lewis Carroll Observed is worth a thousand of the words. From a facsimile of Carroll's first known nonsense poem (a mock epic) to his pictures of little girls (he was a surprisingly talented photographer) to his unpublished sketches for Sylvie and Bruno, the illustrations in this book are on a higher level than the coffee-table. But the weight of the text may confine the book there...
...welding torch and glue. With tin, antique doorknobs, hip baths, umbrellas, bicycle parts, lamp shades, stained glass, saucepan lids, Victrola horns, ear trumpets, soup strainers, miles of wicker and wiring, he transforms cartoon fantasies into whispering, whistling, wheezing, whirring, gothic-kinetic machines that work, but mostly play. And mock...
...student skit triggered the final crisis, and the coup. Selecting a youth who resembled Thailand's Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, 24, the leftists staged a mock hanging. Gruesome pictures of the charade were splashed all over Bangkok's daily papers that night. By dawn, an enraged mob of 10,000 rightists armed with rifles, swords and clubs began attacking Thammasat. They were met by M-16 gunfire and grenades. Then the troops moved...
...gotta keep movin"' sings the opening soloist in Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, and that's just what this all-black revue does--from songs of bittersweet confrontation and celebration of black awareness to prayers for the brotherhood of man, from mock minuet and kick lines to sinuous rhythm and blue writhings...
...help in November." Chip has been home only six times for brief visits during the past year, but, unlike his father, he still finds a lot to laugh about in politics. When a young woman in Hurst knelt to photograph his Jimmy Carter belt buckle. Chip jumped back in mock alarm. Said he: "I thought you were lusting after my belt buckle." The best Carter campaigner, excluding Mom and Dad, Chip will have stumped in 48 states by Election Day. Twice he flunked speech courses in college. He boasts: "I could pass...