Word: mocking
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Kind of like the Hasty Pudding itself. The veneer of camp belies the hard work that 57 undergraduates put in to perfect their garush glitter. The Pudding members mock celebrity, but they also worship it, promote it, and feed off of it. The Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ (HPT) show and the Woman of the Year ceremony are themselves a mix of kitsch and professionalism, heartfelt productions hidden by makeup. It started as a joke, but today, the Pudding is anything...
...turn of the century, the club began holding mock debates, deciding cases such as “Dido vs. Aeneas: For Breach of Promise” and convicting administrators and students alike for crimes such as witchcraft (their pudding was too tasty to be true) and seriousness (perpetrated by countless professors and clergymen...
...sheer number of times these words appeared in the speech was overwhelming, as the echoed “buzz” words pounded into shape a concise political critique. Its point was clearer than other films at the festival that indiscriminately linked new and old television footage to mock its subjects with a shallow and undeveloped accusatory attitude. Norris notably kept his footage in context and related it to the words that preoccupy today’s political world as a whole...
...parents’ dismay, has not always won the fight. I don’t know how to cook the meals that remind me of home. I like to shop more than I like to do most things. And when I go to Jamaica my younger cousins mock my American “twang,” telling me that I sound just like the people on MTV. Wouldn’t it be appropriate, then, for me to be in a relationship that involved the meeting and sometimes the conflict of two cultures...
...editor of Harvard Magazine. Indeed, Hanfstaengl’s invitation wasn’t the only nod to Nazism on display at the commencement: the Class of 1924 celebrated their tenth reunion by goose-stepping into Harvard Stadium for the playful Class Day exercises, holding their hands in a mock Nazi salute. The incident was blithely described by The New York Times in its account of the event and spectators did not seem perturbed...