Word: mock
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...Vancouver show includes his three massive mock whale skeletons--Shapeshifter, 2000; Cetology, 2002; and Vienna, 2003--all made from white plastic stackable lawn chairs. Even close up they look like the extravaganzas of bone formation beloved of natural-history museums. But in each of the lawn-chair "skeletons," nature becomes culture becomes nature again in an endless loop. These sea shapes are made of plastic, a product derived from oil, which is itself derived from condensed, fossilized creatures. And history, natural and otherwise, is complicated. Whaling was once a staple occupation of the Pacific Coast native peoples, until blubber...
...Jordans also offered themselves as the perfect base material for mock tribal masks because their blacks, whites and reds, borrowed from the uniform of the NBA's Chicago Bulls, are also the colors that recur in carvings of coastal native peoples, especially the Haida. In the flash of an eye, tribal palette becomes team colors and vice versa. Native tribes and sports tribes flicker back and forth in the same slightly comic, slightly menacing face...
After President Bush called for a ban on "human-animal hybrids" in the State of the Union address, humananimalhybrid.net sprang up to mock the oversimplification of complex issues...
That makes shoppers perhaps the perfect fodder for America's newest form of back talk: blogs. Once limited to the occasional coffee-break rant with their colleagues, salespeople are turning to the Web to vent about and occasionally mock the bizarre customer encounters that make working in retail so, um, interesting. "One day a male client called and asked that I bring over some foot-cream samples," writes Birdie Jaworski, an Avon lady, in her blog, Beauty Dish. "He not only wanted to try them on my feet, but then he wouldn...
...course, after reading Nasdijj's essay and book, I suspected that he was a literary thief and a liar. As a Native American writer and multiculturalist, I worried that Nasdijj was a talented and angry white man who was writing as a Native American in order to mock multicultural literature. I imagined that he would eventually reveal himself as a hoaxer and shout, "You see, people, there is nothing real or authentic about multicultural literature. Anybody can write...