Word: mocking
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...life" has become almost a mantra for Latham (and a phrase journalists use among themselves to mock his earnestness) as he builds a narrative of constancy and purpose. Sure, he's not the first politician to do this - to show that he's one of the people - but he's doing it in a peculiarly Australian way, using the vernacular and mundane experiences to connect. Last February, when he began a series of community forums ("democracy in the raw," he calls it) at the Central Coast Leagues Club in Gosford, N.S.W., Latham immediately caught the temper of the crowd...
...avoid any potential confusion, I will make explicit what my intentions are not: to mock George Bush’s capacity for verbalizing coherent thoughts. I promise I have grown out of that. Yes, there was a time when I considered myself supremely cool for owning the book Is Our Children Learning?, when “subliminable” and “wings take dream” made for a satisfactory criticism of our alleged president. Not anymore. These days, I will be the first to defend George Bush’s command of rhetoric and verbal manipulation...
...time he'll have a tougher race, which informally kicks off at the Labour conference this week. The mother of all his troubles is Iraq. Bigley's misery (as Time went to press, his fate was unknown) showed how easy it will be for terrorists in coming months to mock Blair's insistence that Iraq is on the right road, and to drown out the domestic themes to which Labour voters want him to return. To add to his troubles, a MORI poll published Sunday showed a four-point drop for Labour, to 32%, meaning the Conservatives...
...bloodbath at Beslan came scarcely a week after twin suicide-bombings brought down two Russian airliners and a third wrought havoc outside a Moscow subway station, leaving more than 100 dead. The latest wave of attacks appeared calculated to mock President Putin's claim that he had defeated the Chechen separatist insurgency, and that the situation in the rebel region had was returning to normal following the election of Moscow's handpicked candidate as president of the region, in a poll widely criticized by observers. Indeed, the election was necessitated by the fact that Moscow's previous pick to lead...
...week in an apparent real-life case of fatal attraction. At a preliminary hearing, the Chicago star read aloud from letters sent by her alleged stalker, Dawnette Knight. One note promised "to slice her up like meat on a bone and feed her to the dogs." Another included a mock obituary for the Welsh actress, who is married to her Traffic castmate Michael Douglas. The letters left the actress "hysterical," her husband testified. Knight, says her lawyer, sent them because she harbored a crush on Douglas and was upset by a tabloid story claiming that Zeta-Jones was cheating...