Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marina Warner's latest book is No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock...
...junior officer, one of his soldiers was disabled by a broken leg, so he substituted Avinoam to fill the roster and complete a month of desert maneuvers, even though his brother was underage and not yet inducted into the army. As a general, Barak won a mock battle with another division by sending scouts to the rival camp the night before to steal their communications gear...
...mainly female) tellers of fairy tales that is filled with such tidbits as why Bluebeard's beard was blue--it is the color of both desire and melancholy, "the marvellous and the inexplicable." Now Warner has published a sequel, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 435 pages; $35), about (mainly male) giants, ogres and devils and what they can tell us about society's fears...
PSLM members used the skit to mock students as well as administrators. The actors playing students chanted "Party! Party!" in their re-creation of the Rally for Justice, which occurred during a full Faculty meeting in March...
...more tenacious he gets. He has been banished all the way to Bravo, and though his new show is not as slick as his last (TV Nation), it's even more hard-hitting. Moore bothers Big Business again, as he does when he invites Humana execs to the mock funeral of a man whose pancreas transplant has been denied by the insurers. It's unusual to find an angry liberal in this economy, but Moore makes a better case for the working guy than any politician out there...