Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell is 'we'?" he asks, mock-incredulously...
Fortunately, unlike "the magazine that condenses"--as they mock in one song, they couldn't keep their story down to three lines. In 1944 they got their first big chance as lyricists, working with Leonard Bernstein on "On the Town." Since then, their words have spotlighted "Singin' in the Rain." "The Band Wagon," "Bells are Ringing," "Wonderful Town," "Hallelujah Baby," and "Applause...
...witty in the nation this fall. During a panel discussion after the primary, Buckley referred to Moynihan as "professor," somehow managing to evoke with his richly cultivated tone the image of a chalk-dusty elitist woefully out of touch with reality. Up shot the Moynihan Mephistophelean eyebrow. With mock outrage he fulminated: "Boy, this campaign is getting rough. I might call you a businessman...
...Nolan. The Gaelic novel is not only written for and of the Gales, but also purports to be by one-a certain Bonaparte O'Coonassa. But the credit transparently belongs to Myles, the columnist concerned about the so-called preservation of Gaelic Ireland, and the satirist who could mock things Gaelic as he lamented their passing, even making fun of his own concerns. All simultaneously, and in the language of the issue, the "Gaeltacht...
...Teachers lead the inmates, one by one, through specific textbook cases: "You are not married but are the mother of a child fathered by ..."; "You arrive at National Airport from New York, and a policeman finds a pound of marijuana by searching your suitcase ..." The courses wind up with mock trials, in which the convict-students prosecute and defend cases before actual judges from the D.C. bench. Says Garland Poynter, head of education at the District of Columbia Jail: "Once you learn the system, you learn to respect it. It decreases frustration." Thanks to street law's practical...