Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frivolity, PAMTGG does display, once more, Balanchine's uncanny skill at catching the aesthetic potential in America's mass culture and at fusing pop dance with ballet. Slightly dated in its style, the dancing of PAMTGG seems to have been inspired by the sort of mock ballet once seen on the Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason shows. Somehow Balanchine can create grace out of tackiness and art out of kitsch. If nothing else. PAMTGG leads one to wonder what kind of magic he might work if his fancy were caught by a roller derby or a pro football...
BOOM! sounded the cannons. Crack! went the rifles. As the smoke settled over the calm greensward of New Market, Va., a ragged gray line of ersatz Confederates marched on the Yankee guns. In accordance with the script, the Bluebellies died in a heap of splendid tragedy. As one mock Union soldier put it: "I'm a Confederate. But there weren't enough real Yankees to man the cannon...
...distinct from those wanderers who, to mock the present, dress like Depression Okies, trading-post Tontos or deserters from the Bolivian army. Jones seems very much at ease with himself. Where a certified counterculture writer like Richard Brautigan beats a well-attended retreat into an America of little more than his own enchanting imagination, Jones and his friends privately brave real effluvia. It would be a grand experience to be up a creek with them-with or without a paddle. ∙R.Z. Shepard
...Egypt's President, Anwar Sadat, 52, after seven months in power, is no longer the butt of scornful jokes. He is no longer referred to as a "caretaker," soon to be supplanted by a more powerful leader. Dispossessed aristocrats no longer mock him, and politicians are discovering unexpected talents. Like some Nileside Harry Truman, Sadat is running the most populous and most important Arab nation with far greater authority and efficiency than anyone had anticipated...
...intellectual onetime Columbia rebel who achieved notoriety of sorts in a famous 1968 photograph. It showed him occupying President Grayson Kirk's office chair while puffing one of Kirk's "liberated" cigars. Shapiro, who had already published a book of poetry at the time, now calls that episode "mock theater" and gives it only one big plus: he met his future wife during the activity. A Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Columbia, he plans a career of teaching and writing, has collaborated with Poet Kenneth Koch in encouraging ghetto kids to write poetry (TIME, Dec. 28) and regularly plays...