Word: mock
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...perseveres, pointing to another word. "Ubiquitous. Sometimes when you are walking around downtown L.A., the police are ubiquitous." Polite laughter. "Resonant. Many opera singers have a resonant quality to their voice." He breaks into a baritone, singing scales with a mock gravity...
...National Student/Parent Mock Election began in 1980, but this is the first year the results have been aired nationwide. Students from New York City manned the phones and computers. A few, like Stuyvesant High School's Boaz Weinstein and Amanda Schaffer, served as on-air reporters and interviewers. Other student groups in locations ranging from Miami to Fairbanks contributed live reports on local presidential results. Said Mary Alice Williams of CNN, the program's anchor: "It's timely and necessary that we teach people that voting in the U.S. is a birthright. I caught the virus immediately...
They are the last ethnic group America can comfortably mock. In movies and on TV, the Italian-American male is Stanley Kowalski without the sex appeal, the female a masochistic Judy absorbing too many Punches. So it is a tonic to meet the Italian Americans in John Patrick Shanley's plays (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea) and films (Moonstruck). The residents of Shanley's Little Italy dare to express their feelings in street poetry whose melodic line is closer to Verdi's than to Bon Jovi's. In his new off-Broadway play Shanley goes further, announcing that these...
Students `Vote' In Mock Election...
Straw Poll Coordinator Kathryn Keough '89 said she expected about 3000 undergraduates to "vote" in the mock election. Members will tabulate the results by Thursday, using a Boston University computer, she said...