Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissing is nothing new to the Navy, explained Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., Chief of Naval Operations. He told the American Bar Association convention that after he was photographed kissing an admiral-Alene Duerk, the first woman to reach that rank-he received a mock critical letter from a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Zumwalt's reply: "You should have recalled that nobody reaches the place I'm at without kissing a lot of admirals...
Alsop has been privately irked by suggestions that his highly favorable columns on China signaled a new-found admiration for the Communist system. In a letter to the Washington Post, for example, John Kenneth Galbraith asked in mock wonder whether the "distinguished columnist, Mr. Chou En-alsop" was related to "Captain Joe Alsop," who for years had dismissed Chinese Communists as simply an "appendage" of the Soviet Union...
MOST OF THE BOOK is an over-written compendium of mock-heroics: our hero was scared one night, "I wanted to cry into the pillow of my bed, but there was no pillow. So I cried right onto the sheet." But after pruning the thicket of countless noble deeds, the book does contain a core of political analysis, centered around anti-Communism as its primary tenet. The Soviet betrayal of socialism is the greatest crime in history for the promoters of this brand of politics, and the Soviety offspring, the nations in what was once known as the Communist Bloc...
...thickly tangled plot that may take you the whole first act to unravel. Basically, the main character is not really the medieval German emperor, (sigh of relief from those who hate historical plays), but a twentieth-century Italian aristocrat who suffered a fall from his horse during a mock-medieval pageant and remained convinced that he was actually Henry IV. In order to humor him, his relatives have totally recreated Henry's courts, with servants in medieval dress, oil lamps instead of electric lights, visiting abbots and monks--the works. For twenty years "Henry" orders everybody around, demanding obedience...
...interesting and ambitious notion, but one that does not quite fit into the structure of the film; it is almost a frill. What works better is the idea that Ivan is not only mesmerized by such mock-heroic displays, but much influenced and shaped by them. Throughout the film, he is ground down and exploited. His fantasy of breaking out of his grim world by becoming a celebrity is exploded when the music producer, who controls distribution of nearly all records on the island, offers him $20 for his song-take it or leave it. Too proud at first...