Word: mock
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...Green’s satiric stylings alone may be enough to carry fans through “Sixes & Sevens.” He is consistently smart-mouthed, with more sting than the Magnetic Fields and some serious comedic variety. He puts his chameleonic quality to good use, managing to mock the sensibilities of Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, the Beach Boys, and Broadway musicals without sacrificing any part of his characteristic wit. Keeping in mind what they say about imitation and flattery, however, Green’s irreverence can only goes so far. He mimics these styles in jest but also...
...particularly boring art history class. He was intrigued by the part of Jerry, with its challenging 20-page monologue. The play would end up launching his career—Judd Apatow was sitting in the audience. After that, Segel’s drama teacher convinced him to attend a mock audition class.“He brought me into this room and there was a woman there, and they had me read side after side of audition pages. I didn’t think much of it, but like a week later my parents sat me down and said...
...Archibald was brilliant in his vanity, stealing the attention of the audience as well as the rapturous maidens. His sickly counterpart, the “fleshly” Reginald, was well cast to satirize Oscar Wilde. Yet Kimmey’s permanent grimace was distracting, as were the mock Grecian poses and the excessive facial expressions of the actors. The overacting made the satire feel forced and slightly undercut the humor of the show. At times, it seemed that the orchestra, conducted by Yuga J. Cohler ’11, was the only consistently earnest element in the entire play...
...came to mock. coffee for $600 a pound? Fifty dollars for a pack of three 1-lb. (0.45 kg) tubes of butter? A liter of olive oil for $182? A $120 bottle of beer? I am an intolerable food snob, but I am also from middle-class New Jersey, and the upper reaches of the grocery aisles can make me want to smash something, like a tiny bottle of $145 balsamic vinegar that comes in a box with a 106-page book...
...albums didn’t—most notably, a sense of perspective. While he might not exactly be an elder statesman in the vein of Nas or Rakim, his lead single “Bubble Pop” serves as a worthy critique of rap culture today. Its mock-lament of the “deflation” of today’s hip-hop “helium heads” resonates powerfully over a doughy beat layered beneath the sampled bells of Bob James’s “Take me to the Mardi Gras...