Word: mocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about it. What does become a legend most--Natalie Wood in blackglama mink or Natalie Wood in a shroud? And who would Harvard students most want to see gracing their dorm walls--Mel Gibson brandishing a laser gun or James Dean brandishing a cigarette? And what picture better represents mock-native cinematic sexuality than Marilyn Monroe struggling with her out-of-control white frock over a dark subway grid? Even Madonna's hairy armpits can't compete...
This evening students also plan to hold a mock funeral procession and candlelight vigil at Memorial Church to commemorate Blacks who have died in South Africa...
...Gorbachev did appear to open one possibly fruitful avenue for negotiation. In the TIME interview, he drew a distinction between "fundamental" or laboratory research into Star Wars weaponry, which he conceded "will continue" because there would be no way to verify a halt, and the building of "models or mock-ups or test samples," which could be stopped by a verifiable agreement. Byrd found this a welcome contrast to the previous "stonewalling" of Soviet negotiators, who had insisted that SDI research of any kind must cease as the prelude to an arms-control deal. It could point toward the kind...
...history if America had been discovered not on its Atlantic side by Christopher Columbus but on its Pacific side by a 15th century Chinese explorer named Ko Lum Bo. As hardy immigrants from the Orient began to establish colonies in the sweeping new continent, Stewart wrote in mock retrospect, they naturally ! adhered as closely as possible to the customs of their native land. Accordingly, "vast areas of the country were terraced and irrigated as rice paddies. The colonists continued to use their comfortable flowing garments, and pagodas dotted the landscape...
...will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him." One can admire these teachings, and yet sometimes find them impossible to accept, or act upon. Must one not make an exception in the case of someone as vile as Mengele? Would mercy toward him not mock his victims...