Word: mocking
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...analysts say it is Sher who should worry. Chinese manufacturers have been slow to realize the value of making a PDA chic, rather than boxy and utilitarian. Many of China's device makers mock Palm for producing a Michael Jordan PDA. Zhang, a savvy marketer, was the first Chinese PDA manufacturer to understand the role of whim and fashion in the industry. He turned his product into a household name with the help of a massive television advertising campaign featuring China's debonair movie heartthrob, Pu Quanxin. Zhang has also proved to be a clever distributor. He secretly installs...
...Jewish writer on the rise; Kathleen (Lauren Kennedy) is an Irish-Catholic actress whose career never takes off. There are clever interludes--an audition in which we hear Kathleen's inner turmoil, set to the melody of the song she's performing--and unabashedly romantic ones, like a mock Russian folktale that Jamie sings to his beloved on her birthday. The show is too sketchy in spots, particularly in its portrayal of Kathleen. But Brown's music (lushly orchestrated with Brown himself on piano) is the least arid and most accessible of the scores turned out by his generation...
...Plenty has happened since the birth of the U.N. to mock that hope. But that has not deterred Kofi Annan from making it his life's work to revive and sustain it in the face of the pervasive cynicism that pervades his world. People have been beatified for less...
...things I think are cute in used-clothing stores and change the color, size, emblem, whatever, to fit Japanese teens. I just decide what to do case by case with whatever pops into my head," Takai explains. Even firms without young designers find the traditional drawing-board-to-mock-up-to-sample-to-store-shelf cycle doesn't cut it in this industry. Tokyo girls, instead of company stylists, helm this multibillion-dollar market. "Once we put the shoe on the shelf, our customers and staff make suggestions and modifications to it," says Mutsumi Tanabe, the thirtysomething managing director...
...want her to get damn tired,' the old spieler says. ''Cause I got somethin' in mind.' Now he's playing the cute old goat. 'I feel like a condemned building with a new flagpole.' Parrott soldiers on, with exemplary forbearance, and Paul puts a note of hope into his mock-lechery: 'I don't have too much to offer, hon' just money.' He turns to the audience and offers the plaint of any 86-year-old whose royalties from records and guitar sales keep accumulating while the energy level keeps dissipating. 'I can get anything I want,' he says...