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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience was treated to anti-Reagan folk songs and to mock speeches and press conferences in which students impersonating Reagan strove to make him appear alternately uninformed, easily confused, bigoted, and extremist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan 'Games' Mock President With Song, Dance | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...three contestants--Gilbert Fuchsberg '85, Daniel P. Oran '87 and Gary D. Rowe '88--and folk singer/Mondale activist Paul Shea received as prizes mock welfare checks, food stamps, and a handful of jeffy beans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan 'Games' Mock President With Song, Dance | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...races. An unusually big weekday crowd (12,666) came to Keeneland to watch her and the horses. "She's darling," pronounced Lori Wykstra, a retired nurse. "I didn't see anything dowdy about her." Inside the wood-paneled Keeneland pavilion, the Queen watched a mock yearling sale-cum-Thoroughbred quiz show, all staged for her amusement: the M.C. described only the horses' pedigrees, while the visitor and her entourage guessed at the identity of each animal. Later, mingling a bit with the groundlings in the grandstand after the $100,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge, she chatted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Horsey Holiday for Her Majesty | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...Washington, D.C., home, diligently preparing. In white sneakers and an old pair of bell-bottom blue jeans, he slumped in an armchair, studying a black briefing book of some 25 likely questions. Then he moved into his dining room, temporarily transformed into a television studio, to engage in mock debates. The part of Reagan was usually played by Columbia University President Michael Severn, a former law professor of Mondale's at the University of Minnesota. Severn affected Reagan's affable style, even his phrasing and sentence patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime Time Showdown | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

Brennan will visit the Law School on November 19 to review student-written briefs and hear oral arguments in the prestigious mock trial competition. Brennan will also meet law students and professors at a reception...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Brennan to Preside Over Moot Court's Final Round | 10/4/1984 | See Source »

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