Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response of Afro-Asian delegates who had voted for the Zionism resolution was predictably cold. Pakistan's Iqbal Akhund made the observation that no nation "has a monopoly on righteousness or self-righteousness," while Saudi Arabia's irrepressible Jamil Baroody offered a mock resolution forgiving "the illustrious Daniel Patrick Moynihan for any misconceptions he may have formed about the U.N. during his sojourn...
...seminar at the Law School Nesson observes a mock courtroom trial, looking fascinated. As the student prosecutor catches a witness in an apparent contradiction, Nesson smiles and nods his head approvingly, as if he has just witnessed a dancer executing a difficult pirouette...
...disagreeable aspects of menstruation. There are, indeed, a few amusing moments in it, but for the most part the film consists of naked women standing on a hilltop, legs spread apart, with a most unusual, watery, lurid pinkish substance gusing down their legs. The humorous highlights are a mock communion scene in which codeine tablets are taken in place of wafers and menstrual blood is drunk in lieu of wine, and when some woman with a sanitary napkin hooked up over her clothing, leaping about, stomps up and down on a box of Kotex. It's all rather artsy...
...books. I figured, what would I like? I wouldn't want these card-board figures who are just one-dimensional--a character who's all good, and the villains are all bad. And at the end of the story, the villain loses and the hero wins." He continues, with mock earnesty, "I figured there must be more to life than that. So we came up with heroes who worried about dandruff, allergy attacks, bad colds, fallen arches, acne, bad breath. And we came up with some villains who we tried to make lovable. We tried to get a little satire...
...jail murders and the emotional Bengalis' reaction to the news apparently convinced the generals that it was time to oust the upstarts. Early Monday morning, soldiers loyal to the generals took up positions outside the presidential palace. As helicopters and MIGs made mock strafing runs over the palace, the majors negotiated a deal: surrender of power in exchange for safe-conduct passage for themselves and their families to Thailand. Among those who promptly applied for political asylum in the U.S. and Pakistan was Lieut. Colonel Sayed Farook Rahman, instigator of the August coup...