Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mock-The loading of fuel and oxidizer into the Titan II's tanks...
...this film, James Bond will be a bigger superman than he has ever been before, bigger than he ought to be." To make sure the film tops fantasy, $1,500,000 is being sunk into underwater effects alone, including a drowned Vulcan bomber, a two-man sub with mock-up atom bombs (stenciled "Handle like eggs") tucked under its manta-ray wings, eight SPECTRE henchmen skimming through the water on jet-powered underwater scooters. There will even be underwater sex, although all the cameras will show is bubbles merging by a reef...
Cetshwayo desired only to coexist with the white settlers. In 1873, he submitted to a mock ceremony at which the Cape Colony's Secretary for Native Affairs, in the name of Queen Victoria, placed a tinsel crown on his royal brow. But all along the western boundary of Zululand, white colonists looked hungrily east at Cetshwayo's virgin land. To the British, that unsubjugated savage kingdom constituted an intolerable obstacle to progress...
...their dolls, but a sculptress named Marisol is an exception. She has made her dolls grow up with her. One 7-ft. 4-in. figure, Baby Boy, even clutches a small doll, with Marisol's features, in his gigantic fist. Her lifesized, deadpan puppets in brightly painted wood mock and mime the postures of people whom she meets (see opposite page...
Eddie Amsel is fat, clever, half-Jewish. Walter Matern is lean, brooding, half-heartedly Aryan. Matern protects Amsel when other schoolboys mock his fatness or yell "sheeny." He cannot tell why he does this, nor why sometimes he squirms away from his obligation to protect and yells "sheeny" himself. The unbreakable and intolerable bond between the two friends-one not wholly a Jew or admirable, the other not wholly an Aryan or despicable-gives the book its symbolic structure...