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...forum. New shows (the flop Anna Karenina, Patti LuPone in the not-even-yet-produced Sunset Boulevard) are raked over the coals; old chestnuts (a frenzied Les Miz, a nontraditional Miss Saigon) are freshly roasted. The song titles alone delight (to the tune of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a mock Mandy Patinkin sings Somewhat Overindulgent; the stars of the Gershwins' Crazy for You croon Replaceable You); the four protean performers are the tops...
...Ashbery's cosmology, it is in another, more plausible vision of childhood regained, a vision of childlikeness as a triumph of education. Surely the most hopeful parts of this new book are the poems dominated, not by journeys, parties or cities, but by pedagogy. In poems that begin as mock-lectures, Ashbery writes as listening child and, simultaneously, as the voice of experience...
...Several mock fights erupted between the spirited participants as they played out to the cheering audience...
Results of a National Student/Parent Mock Election, in which 4.6 million students and some parents cast ballots in all 50 states, were counted last Thursday. Clinton carried 35 states and D.C., with 459 electoral votes. A similar election in 1988 gave George Bush a 59%-to-41% win over Michael Dukakis -- a mild inflation of the actual 53.4%-to-45.6% outcome. Most of the students are still too young to vote...
...were a subversive group of nine-year-olds. Our class was the only one to vote for John Anderson in the school-wide mock election--everyone else voted for Carter. In February, when we heard that the President was shot, one girl said what we were all sort of thinking: "I hope he dies and they elect a Democrat." Our teacher was horrified and spent the rest of the day telling us that the Communists in Russia were just waiting to take advantage of a leaderless America. It was the first time I heard about John F. Kennedy...