Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crutch-borne veterans and draftage youngsters. Derisively they barked the familiar German parade ground orders: Achtung. Vorwarts marsch. Rechts urn, links urn, rechts um." Inside the stadium restaurant, another 1,000 jammed crutch-littered tables, guzzling beer from massive mugs and laughing at the youngsters who mock goose-stepped around in paper hats...
...pair of inventive commercials. The first, featuring an actor and a model, managed a provocative, if somewhat cloying, combination of Lincoln and sex; the second used the rhythmic movements of 18 actors (as many as were employed in the cast of State of the Union) to create a mock political parade and rally that ended up as a plug for Ford cars. Adman Blake Johnson of Kenyon & Eckhardt reported that the commercials, which were colorcast, cost five times more than usual and were rehearsed for three days instead of the customary few hours. Pontiac commercials concentrate on good "portrait shots...
...mock hero of The Man Without Qualities is a thirtyish intellectual named Ulrich. an egghead so tired that he is little more than a spiritual shell. Echoing his nihilism is a chorus of earnest buffoons: a Prussian millionaire who yearns to be an ethical superman, a general who is a kind of military Mortimer J. Adler and wants to classify all the world's great ideas, a beautiful but muddled matron who thinks the quickest trip to heaven is on a cultural broomstick. Author Musil perches them all on the lip of a volcano-the years 1913 and early...
Last week the tone of the campaign still permitted Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson to argue that a Democratic Congress would be good for Ike. Expressing mock surprise that the President was supporting Republicans after so many of them had "failed to support" the Administration program, Johnson cracked that "President Eisenhower will have no one to blame but himself" if a G.O.P. Congress is elected. Cried Lyndon: "That man is a glutton for punishment...
...those semi-intellectuals who scout among the theatre listings, searching for ripe-sounding films at which they will be able to mock the public taste, to laugh at the wrong times, and to burp obscenities in love scenes, White Christmas will seem a promising tidbit. What unparalleled opportunities for bad taste--Bing Crosby as a lover, Rosemary Clooney as a singer, Danny Kaye as a wise-cracking comic, Dean Jagger as a crusty, kindly old general! All in Technicolor and Vista Vision tool How could it miss...