Word: mocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with it, the lights. But the magic lingered. On the other side of the theater, a little girl pranced around under the area created by an arch. She twirled three times, calling to her mother, "Watch me, watch me." Her blond hair flopped as she bounced up in a mock pirouette. She spun again, playing to her now growing audience. She couldn't have been more than four, but she had fallen under the spell...
...company of educated men and women--and there are still things that even I do not understand. This worries me. I have very little time left to make amends before I will be forced into a pathetic little life of misery and sadness, during which my peers will mock me mercilessly at every opportunity. You can always count on peers for that...
...true. The ensuing lies are generally sanitizing, ennobling and inspirational. At the beginning of Walker, its creators cross their hearts and hope to die in the usual manner. But the lying that follows is of a grand and giddy kind -- the stuff of that rarest of movie genres, the mock epic...
Ronald Reagan appeared to be standing on the threshold of a Buck Rogers future. In a Martin Marietta Corp. research plant outside Denver last week, the President stood before an 18-ft. partial mock-up of a chemical laser project that might one day be rocketed into space to zap Soviet nuclear missiles heading for the U.S. Reagan assured company engineers that the Strategic Defense Initiative, his space-based antimissile program, was "bounding forward" and that they were not working on a bargaining chip to be traded away in an arms deal...
...Empire of the Sun, Steven Spielberg grows up onscreen. -- Walker is a mock epic that lies grandly and giddily about Nicaragua...