Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dealers with the self-righteous pragmatism common to pulp fiction. Anyone who can see beyond this, or below it, will catch a smooth performance by Williams and a funny, skittish performance by Richard Pryor, as one of Williams' recruits. Pryor's humor pierces through his characterization to mock the whole movie with energy and finesse...
With a twinkle in his eye and mock solemnity in his voice, handsome, white-haired Wilmarth S. Lewis gazed at his New Haven audience and declared: "The year 1933 is memorable for three events: Hitler's accession to full power, the first Inaugural of Franklin Roosevelt, and the start of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Ladies and gentlemen, which of these events is, so to say, still going strong...
LEGEND OF MR. VEE. A "mythical play." To me this sounds like the mock war crimes tribunals they used to have, with all the real war crimes lying around. Maybe someday it will grow up and become a real play. Tomorrow and Saturday, 8:30 p.m. at the Black Wheat Theater, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street in Boston...
When O.J. Simpson first suited up with the Buffalo Bills in 1969, Coach John Rauch took one look at the rookie running back and pronounced himself sorely disappointed. "Simpson," Rauch announced with mock astonishment, "doesn't walk on water...
...process of production as with the experience of the individual worker. We learn that there is craftsmanship as well as tedium on the assembly line. We come away with a sense of the immediacy of the jobs themselves that opens up a large ideological space between shots that mock Pompidou visiting an auto show and those that cannot help but celebrate the flow of enameled bodies or a welder's master touch...