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...remaining in the game, junior swingman Don Fleming hit a jumper from the top of the key to close the margin to 41-21, and the crowd greeted the news with a standing ovation. Why? The hoop provided the team's first points of the half; the mock salute from the restless IAB crowd of 1300 burned home the message: the team that won its first three ballgames--and lost the next three--still has a long...
...substituted for two Samuel Beckett pieces at a late date, The Berlin Requiem is a series of seven songs devoid of light, hope, and in the end life itself. It is a work of music, really, not theater at all. Weill's orchestration turns the woodwind section into a mock organ, coldly pealing in the face of death...
Good Morning America, on the other hand, is like an afternoon tabloid, more frivolous but also less pretentious. The basic set is a mock suburban home, with a cozy living room and a working kitchen (for Pinkham and Child). If Brokaw is as brisk as a barrister, the easygoing Hartman, 45, is as relaxed as the family doctor, someone whom you would not mind telling about all those aches and pains. He also has a female subaltern, Joan Lunden, 30, a wholesome-looking type who is given little scope on the show, perhaps wisely. Her style of interviewing...
...move, speak, blink, but they allow him to shift their chin straps slightly to wipe their lips. He asks them repeatedly if they are comfortable, and though they do not reply, he seems satisfied that they are. The crowd smiles to see his humane act; small children mock the soldiers' stiff stance but are only able to hold still for a few seconds. A troop of soldiers arrives at the memorial; each man takes his hat off to the bronze. Their leader sees the young man with the washcloth, and walks up to him happily to thank...
...crowd of more than 500 gathered last night at the Law School to witness the final rounds of the Ames Court Competition, an annual mock trial for third-year law students...