Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know it's not nice to mock an eating disorder, particularly one that's been vigorously denied. Fortunately, someone else did it for us. In its year-end issue, the normally obsequious TV Guide did a takeoff on an ad for Altoids, the ubiquitous mint, starring CALISTA FLOCKHART. Never mind, Ally. Life ain't all roses for self-described "fat girl" actress Camryn Manheim either. Is INSTYLE the only irony-free magazine left...
...therefore decreed that on the 747, pilots should sit above the flight deck so the nose could be opened up and take cargo. The 747's ultimate fate, he thought, would be as a flying Mack truck. Boeing showed him a wooden mock-up of the 747's flight deck, in the hump above the nose. He foraged around and came upon the space behind the flight deck, the rest of the hump. "What is this for?" he asked. "A crew rest area," said a Boeing engineer. "Rest area?" barked Trippe. "This is going to be reserved for passengers...
Satire V (Veritas) written backwards), published Friday and distributed to many dorms, pokes fun at Harvard with eight pages of mock news stories...
...found on newsstands in Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago and Denver, as well as in Madison) and claims 200,000 readers on the Internet www.theonion.com) it will be sold in Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide starting this week. Early next year Crown will publish Our Dumb Century, a compendium of mock front pages from editions of the Onion that, of course, never existed (JOHNSON VOWS TO HONOR KENNEDY'S MEMORY BY TAKING PLUMP YOUNG MISTRESS). And Dikkers says the Onion is talking with one of the networks--he won't say which--to do a special based on the book next...
...explains the difficulties of having hugely overweight leads playing believable romantic roles. In one version of La Boheme, with Jane Eaglan as Mimi, the Met had to build a bed that sunk with her weight to help some of the extra bulk. Hoelterhoff fills the chapter out with a mock "Diva Diet," which begins with a slice of toast for breakfast and ends with an "entire frozen Sara Lee cheesecake" for a late-night snack...