Word: mock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invented a new TV genre. Two sets of clones are currently trying (mostly in vain) to match their success: Rex Reed and Bill Harris on At the Movies; Jeffrey Lyons and Michael Medved on Sneak Previews. Meanwhile, Siskel and Ebert are frequent guests on the Tonight show and have mock-settled their differences in a basketball-shooting contest on Late Night with David Letterman. Movies now even make fun of them: in Hollywood Shuffle, two streetwise blacks review movies in a takeoff called Sneakin' in the Movies...
...Viet Nam War, conveys the bare emotions of a soldier fallen out of season with himself, as well as the harshness of life in America's northern wilderness. There, even nature offers litle solace; the aurora borealis, a ghostly disturbance flickering in the sky, appears as a "mock sun" that offers light but no heat...
...false and inaccurate stories printed, photographers peeking in our windows, swarms of helicopters hovering over our roof, and my very strong wife close to tears because she can't even get in her own house at night without being harassed. And then after all that, ponderous pundits wonder in mock seriousness why some of the best people in this country choose not to run for high office...
...Chancellor Franz Vranitzky reacted with calculated displeasure. Austria pointedly recalled its Ambassador from Washington for consultations and rejected the U.S. charges as "unproven." Nor did officials in Vienna accept the U.S. view that the law excluding Waldheim permits waivers for those with diplomatic status. Said Foreign Minister Alois Mock: "You cannot differentiate between a private person and the President." But Vranitzky stopped short of canceling a scheduled visit to Washington later this month, explaining that he now needs to use his meeting with Reagan to press for the evidence on which the U.S. acted. Austrian political observers took that decision...
...illusion of apartheid, as decreed by the major segregation laws of the 1950s, was the fantasy that South Africa's blacks could be legally assigned to ten autonomous tribal homelands and then admitted to white South Africa only as migrant workers, not citizens. The realities of urbanization mock that fantasy, and anyone wandering around Cape Town or Johannesburg today can see blacks sitting next to whites in restaurants or lining up in the same banking queue to be served by a black teller. Nobody is surprised to observe a black traffic policeman ticketing a white who ran a stop sign...