Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aside from Newt's hour, the network's most talked-about show is Youngbloods, a political round table featuring six men and women in their 20s. The show is set in a mock dorm lounge complete with loud furniture and a lava lamp. The slouching panelists, two moderate liberals among them, fervidly debate everything from the balanced-budget amendment to the death of patriotism. Discussions can be just as entertainingly fiery. When asked how he would handle the Bosnia crisis if he were President, Youngblood Tom Fitton rejoined: "We bomb the Serbs into oblivion until they start acting like...
...they say, even privately. "That's a touchy subject," sighed a top adviser to the President when asked about Mrs. Clinton. Another official joked that it was too risky discussing the First Lady over a White House phone. "You want me to talk about Hillary?" the official asked with mock incredulity. "This is not a secure line." And then he earnestly claimed he had nothing...
Slick men with tight pink tank tops glide across campus. A half-naked guy in a wig sings a lively Judy Garland medley in the Union. And two Owl members demonstrate the homoerotic nature of their brotherly bonds by performing a mock "marriage" in front of Widener library...
...lesbian playwrights. She was tagged as one of the "N.E.A Four" when she and three other artists were denied grants in 1990 because their work was deemed too "obscene" by the National Endowment for the Arts. In The Well of Horniness there is plenty of chest-grabbing and even mock cunnilingus. Lesbians are referred to as "lezzies" or in one bon mot as "Lebanese." Perhaps what conservatives fear most in Hughes' work is her ability to mock them without seeming bitter or angry. However, humor is the best revenge and in the end Hughes has the last laugh...
Indeed, the North-Robb race has proved to be a rich source of comic material. David Letterman drew up a Top 10 List of mock campaign slogans for North. No. 7 was, "A man of convictions. None of them pending." (North's three convictions in the Iran-contra case were overturned on a technicality.) And Garry Trudeau featured North as arrogant and a chronic prevaricator in his syndicated Doonesbury comic strip last week...