Word: mocks
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...order to draw in young people, the museum was renovated with an eye toward a more interactive experience, a concept unknown in Soviet-era museums, most of which have no pulse - and sometimes no lights. So there's a full-size mock-up of the Mir space station module and a theater that monitors the progress of the space station in real time via video link. Most of the museum, however, is made up of the usual look-but-don't-touch exhibits. A full-size model of the iconic Sputnik satellite is suspended from the ceiling, while the tiny...
...what's the deal? Are rental-car break-ins as rampant in the Aloha State as mock luaus? And if so, are rental agencies knowingly renting theft-prone cars...
...papers. At a recent meeting of one of his spring “American Jury” classes, Nesson sat in the audience watching as a group of his students showed a clip from the popular reality show “Survivor” and then conducted a mock trial based on the show’s “tribal council” rules while candy-incentives circulated for those participating. The marijuana laws seemed to be something of a running joke with the students—two mentioned them over the course of the unrelated simulation, perhaps playing...
...hours a night), tall (5'10'), OCD ( I have to fold and organize all my underwear and I need to make my bed each morning no matter what) Hottest trait: Sometimes my eyes change color to match what I’m wearing Claim to Harvard fame: Mock Trial, Peer Health Exchange, KKG <3 Best part about becoming a sophomore: Living in Adams House with the best roomies ever Fastest way to your heart: Have manners, be a good dancer, and give me dark chocolate What you miss most from the ‘90s: My Spice Girls cassette
...violence; nothing more complicated than that. But other than the aforementioned passage, and a frankness about various bodily functions, Johnson’s stylistic fingerprints are conspicuously absent from the novel.But “Nobody Move” doesn’t work as a parody either. Johnson never mocks or inflates the stock traits of noir or pulp any more than they would ordinarily mock and inflate themselves. If anything, the one implicit joke is on the author; there is only the awkwardness of a character self-consciously using a cell phone over a pay phone, or complaining about...