Word: mocking
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...Partner," one more reality show, this time with two teams of lawyers (one Ivy-League educated, the other from less prestigious schools) battling it out in mock trials. Whoever is responsible for the fact that this show does not have Alan Dershowitz playing the Donald Trump role should be fired...
...Seinfeld to reconsider and speculation from any media buyers still in their offices about how NBC would survive the loss of the most profitable show on television. SAY IT AIN'T SO! reads the cover of this week's PEOPLE, which goes on to add, with only half-mock portentousness: "A stunned nation prepares for life without Seinfeld." --TIME...
...different college application camps that give students “the edge.” The new fad for highly-motivated, college-bound teens is to spend part of their summer vacation learning how to beat the competition at purportedly low-key college application camps that offer SAT preparation, mock interviews, essay polishing and admissions strategies. Welcome to the world of Camp Get-Into-Harvard...
...first trip to Burma, he had bravely taken me to the house of a prominent democrat. Stupidly, I had no idea who she was or what risks Ko Myo had taken to bring me there. Today, he takes a spoonful of tea-leaf salad and shakes his head in mock disgust. "To think I risked a 10-year prison sentence for that," he says...
...third one of its kind since the onset of his seemingly endless tenure, Dartboard had begun to think she’d only conjured the image of this ill-fated president. She quickly realized she had no such luck. So, as the night approached, Dartboard prepared to jeer and mock the out-of-good-graces leader, as is customary. But as she braced herself to wince at mispronunciations, misnomers (Secretary of the State Rumsfeld?) and tragically ill-formed sentences (“This has been tough weeks in that country”) she actually gleaned something useful from the rhetorically...