Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They are getting the gas chamber at San Quentin ready again. It has been 23 years since an inmate was put to death in the prison that overlooks San Francisco Bay. Now eight volunteers from among the guards are rehearsing mock executions. Inspectors are checking the plumbing to ensure that the systems are working smoothly. If all goes as planned, the airtight steel door of the green chamber will open on April 3 to admit Robert Alton Harris, 37, then close behind...
Besides being their most severe critics, the Cronyns are also their strongest supporters. "Jessie, I think, is the definitive actress," says Cronyn. He is about to say something more, but she flusters him by raising her left leg high in the air and shouting Wheeeee! in mock celebration of such high praise...
...scale model of the Statue of Liberty evoked memories of Tiananmen Square. A mock barrier, dubbed the Wall of Colonialism, was battered down as demonstrators cheered. It might have been an anti-Soviet prop at an independence rally in Lithuania. Instead, this was in the city of Ponce in southern Puerto Rico, and the 125,000 yellow-clad marchers were not calling for the island's freedom but to join the U.S. as the 51st state...
...naked), and in comes this smart-ass dandy with a little notebook--this peer--who wasn't at any of those rehearsals, who hasn't put in any time, who can sit comfortably in a chair, scribbling away, and who, with a few sneering phrases, can choose to mock and malign everything that took two months to build. No wonder you hate the critic, even the genuinely insightful critic (a rare bird, anyway...
...from the production, as the actors are equally amusing. Oberhuber, however, does steal the funniest scene in the work. He remarks on the globular maid Nell: "I could discern countries upon her." When his master, Antipholus of Syracuse, quizzes him about the location of the Netherlands, he responds in mock-shock, "Oh, master, I did not look...