Word: mock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plans to carry on the battle for hearts and minds with a book, a weekly syndicated newspaper column on international affairs and a busy schedule of speaking engagements. Kirkpatrick merely smiled as talk turned to a possible presidential candidacy in 1988, but there was no equivocating over a mock recruiting telegram from Georgetown's top-ranked Hoyas. "How about that!" said Kirkpatrick as she opened the accompanying gift of basketball jersey, shorts and a pair of snappy reflecting sunglasses. "Go Hoyas!" she cheered. And look out under the hoop, you guys...
Again, South Africa seemed trapped in a vicious cycle: the fear of repression had sparked resentment, and the expression of that resentment had set off more repression. But last week's disturbances were especially dispiriting because they seemed to mock a host of recent hints by the white minority government that it might be open to relaxing its system of apartheid, or official separation of the races. Less than three weeks before the rioting at Crossroads, the government had pledged to suspend, and reassess, its policy of forcibly resettling blacks. A week before the sudden arrest of the opposition leaders...
GRANDEST CONCESSION. Australian Greg Norman waving a white playoff towel at Fuzzy Zoeller, who the day before had flapped his towel in mock surrender to Norman. The U.S. Open showed the courtliness of golf and brought a grace note of laughter to sport...
...Since 1951 he has opened thousands of young minds as a professor at the California Institute of Technology, where he is regarded as that rarity, an eminent theorist who is a first-rate teacher. He is also a mixed-media event, featured on a novelty poster dressed as a mock mystic and appearing on public television. His directness, warmth and spontaneity are not lost in print...
...play's success, however, are the lively and powerful performances of the other members of the cast, who work both individually and as a troupe to keep the audience laughing throughout. As the fool Osino, Gary Armagnac blends just the right amount of wit and wisdom to successfully mock love and the gentrified aristocracy. Jack Aranson (Sir Toby Belch) and Francis Cuka (Maria) also provide the play with some of its most amusing--and bawdy--humor in their defiance of courtly propriety. And by far the most hilarious performance of the evening is Joseph Costa's portrayal of the cantakeorous...