Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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April 19-23: Vietnam Veterans Against the War will protest in Washington, and conduct a mock war crimes tribunal...
...raging to be merely satirical, too exuberant to be tragic, his first novel (the first African novel to win one of France's top literary honors, the Prix Renaudot) begins as a sort of mock epic outlining in blood red the very real history of an imaginary African empire, Nakem...
...audience sitting on cushions on the floor of the mock living room section of Groove Tube's Video Theater batted a bunch of complimentary balloons back and forth, a middle-aged man sitting against the wall across from the Pepsi-filled refrigerator turned to his wife to say "I'm glad we got here early ... It's half the fun." Groove Tube is at least as much fun as playing with balloons. Its 72-minute repertoire of video-taped comedy sketches, visual one-liners, and TV parodies is, with some exceptions, pleasant, if light-weight, entertainment...
...Health Research Institute for New York City, presented Dr. Teller with the Strangelove Award "on behalf of his excellent imitation of Peter Sellers.' It was a ten-inch silver statue of a man aiming a gun and inscribed, "I was just following orders." Dr. Teller rose and announced with mock humility that he had received many awards in his lifetime, "many of them also undeserved." But he had never refused one. And then, muttering more about inconsistency, he refused this one and plopped it back down in front of Dr. Novick with a grand gesture. Even the radicals laughed...
...also feels betrayed by the angry poor who now mock his social concern: "He had used it to distinguish himself from the slobs of an earlier decade...