Word: mocking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Bush appears to be polling well among the youth demographic in Merrimack. Alison Hoover, a Tufts freshman who rode to New Hampshire with the Harvard canvassers, learns from another very young Republican that her elementary school class favored Bush 15-1 in a recent mock vote...
...can’t wait, either,” it read. Why dost thou mock...
...store is just the beginning. Retailers are reaching out to today's college crowd where they know kids pay attention. Ikea, for instance, sent out half a million e-mails to incoming freshman and then showed up on a couple of dozen college campuses to hand out mock financial-aid forms with an invitation to cut the high cost of college by buying at Ikea. Bed Bath & Beyond offers college-bound shoppers a handy checklist that reminds students not to forget, among other things, the toaster oven, popcorn maker, snack table, blender and, that campus sine qua non, the George...
...decades ago, the typical comfort-shoe customer was a 50-year-old who wanted a pull-on number with a gummy sole. Today traditional comfort brands like Aerosoles count among their clients college kids drawn in by hip T-strap sandals, go-go boots with 3-in. heels and mock-croc peep-toes adorned with silver buckles...
...ceremony—which has become an object of cultish delight for audience members—showcases a dizzying sequence of mock tributes and absurd skits, monitored by its mascot Ig: a bespectacled, nearly nude bald man painted silver from head to toe who wandered around carrying a flashlight. The evening also featured genuine Nobel Laureates. Harvard chemistry laureates Dudley R. Herschbach and William N. Lipscomb, as well as physiology or medicine laureate Richard Roberts, presided over the ceremony, leading everything from a can-can dance to a Karaoke rendition of “Can’t Take...