Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calling their action "Dewey Canyon Three," the Vietnam Veterans group hopes to attract 5000 Vietnam veterans to Washington April 19-23 to conduct mock search-and-destroy missions and bivouac on Capitol Hill. In Boston, the local branch of the radi-cal veterans' group plans to invade Government Center tomorrow morning to demonstrate to city officials and passersby the kinds of tactics used against civilian populations in Vietnam...
...might also try to figure what you do with advertising layouts like an 8-page spread by Truth and Soul Fashions that puts models aping 7 world famous revolutions, from "Geronimo and the Indian Revolution" to "Carrie Nation and the Revolution for Prohibition," in poor-boy sweaters, mock ammunition belts and knickers? And how do you claim that a cover story on Fashion Fascism, The Politics of the Midi, is any more anti-Establishment than Time magazine's cover attack on John Fairchild of Women's Wear Daily? What about the failure to produce writing and reportage worthy...
These reports and others filed by our correspondents, along with those produced by a team of reporter-researchers, went to Writers William Doerner and James Grant. Says Business Editor Marshall Loeb, who saw the SST mock-up at Boeing's Seattle plant last year: "It's hard to look at it and think that it won't fly. You see skilled technicians, and you wonder what will happen to them. You begin to understand their side of the issue...
...third is happy with a bisexual assortment-including his exwife. The men have pretty much dropped their vendetta with the past. While the women are more vitriolic, they seem, at play's end, sadder and more vulnerable, rather like Chekhov's three sisters, to whom a closing mock-reference is made...
...Armed Forces Day 1959, Calvin Trillin and 20 other men of the First United States Army descended by helicopter on Governors Island, then an administrative Army base in New York harbor. In a mock assault they liberated an incinerator from a contingent of computer clerks. Practically under the skirts of the Statue of Liberty, and with the Lebanon crisis undoubtedly fresh in his memory, Trillin fired blanks from his machine gun for the entertainment of officers and visiting Boy Scouts...