Word: mocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Johan Zoffany's courteous but plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks he had shot at Holkham Hall, to the Calke State Bed, a sumptuous four-poster whose hangings of gold-embroidered blue-and-cream silk were recently found in their original box in Calke Abbey, as fresh as the day they...
...movement is the only possible context for the efforts of two freshmen (Crimson, October 23) to solicit University sanctions against the demise of the woolly mammoth. While their efforts can be dismissed as being all in fun, President Derek Bok's ready complicity in all this silliness seems to mock the seriousness of the issues involved in the antiapartheid advocacy of divestment. Bok's response may also have been all in fun, but it seems insensitive just the same...
...impossible to explain how Charlie Hamilton looked with his head in his hands. The only three crews to hit that day were his three. He went back and built a mock arch out of wood in the Connecticut River for his crews to practice with...
Last summer, University officials tore down "Shantytown", a mock structure erected as a "symbolic expression of the divestment movement." Johnston said that activists are currently taking Cornell to court, claiming that the university's action is a violation of their free-speech rights...
Although Harvard outdistanced the Big Red in almost every statistical category, an unpredictable, circus-like atmosphere allowed the Big Red to mock Harvard's athletic superiority...