Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year has passed since 1916 without his making at least one return visit. Often the visits have been elaborate affairs. Adams, working for the Sierra Club as a photographer and guide, would lead as many as 200 people trekking stubbornly across the landscape. He even staged mock Sophoclean dramas in the woods, written by himself. A photo from 1931 shows Adams, in a white sheet, cavorting as "the Spirit of the Itinerary" in a play entitled Exhaustos, featuring King Dehydros and a Chorus of Sunburnt Women...
...called, has some imported features: the new pep song is borrowed from the old American folk favorite Big Rock Candy Mountain, and the promotional pens being handed out are stamped MADE IN U.S.A. So far the drive has succeeded mostly in inspiring derisive parodies, including one mock slogan that concludes: "Project Australia is a failia...
...hardly matters that the stooped Gerontion in Segal's Hot Dog Stand, 1978, is a cast of the sprightly museum director Martin Friedman; what does count is the peculiar tension between his dark shape and the bright white figure of the waitress, under the glare of the lit mock-Mondrian ceiling...
...teen-age Soviet black marketeer ($100 for blue jeans, $200 for a new Kiss album) or an interview with Marxist Professor Bertell Oilman, who invented the board game Class Struggle. When interest rates soared last week, All Things Considered explained the event by staging a 10-min. mock Italian opera, Grosso Interesso, with professional singers, orchestral accompaniment and cunningly dubbed voices of real Government economic policymakers...
There were no echoes of decency at the next stop, a short bus ride from Warsaw. In 1943 the outside of Treblinka was designed like a Hollywood set to assuage the arriving victims and make them easier to manage. Bewildered Jews, released from cattle cars, saw a mock railroad station, complete with buffet and flower beds. Hours later the passengers were forced to strip and take "showers." They were crammed into gas chambers so tightly that babies were often thrust in over the heads of adults. The doors were then closed and the gas jets turned on. There were...