Word: mocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While enjoying the ogles of Madge. Millie and their boarder Rosemary Sydney (Martha Redding), he runs into estranged best friend Alan Seymour (Jeremy Miller)--who just happens to live in the town. The two engage in a mock battle that is at first painful to watch but is ultimately just ridiculous...
...revered, Wilson keeps his white characters at the periphery, yet emphasizes the humanity that binds Americans together. Although his vision is steeped in sadness, it is equally rich in humor and wonder at the everyday joys of living, from the umpteenth retelling of a beloved family anecdote to a mock- scandalized peek through the window at the neighbors, from the swing of a baseball bat to the cradling of a newborn child. Like the blues music he threads through them, his plays transcend ethnicity. Playgoers of any race who come as emotional tourists depart realizing they have seen themselves reflected...
...Brezhnev's bushy eyebrows. A year before Gorbachev came to power a Moscow comedian was banned from television for a year for making fun of an unnamed KGB general. But when Mikhail Zadornov, a Leningrad satirist and television personality, submitted his story to Theater, the editors apparently thought the mock letter was suitable to print...
Sign "O" the Times could have been left alone as one of these concert videos. But from the very beginning, it is clear that Sign is no ordinary concert reel. On a mock-up of his concert set, Prince and some of his band members act out the first of many vignettes designed to augment the concert action. Then the music begins...
...Gore had a major advantage in this battle of mock-populist converts: a television-advertising budget more than double the size of Gephardt's. In one TV spot, Gore angrily declared, "The corporations of this nation have to understand that they are American corporations, and they've got to start investing more money here for a change, and creating more jobs here for a change." In the shoot-out on the Southern airwaves, Gephardt was simply outgunned and outmaneuvered by Gore. As Joe Trippi, a top Gephardt adviser put it, "It was like there were two televisions, and ours...