Word: mocks
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...court in a suit and tie, carefully takes the pages of handwritten notes from his black leather briefcase and settles into his seat. He listens closely, takes notes, sometimes smiles or scowls, other times just sits impassively with his arms crossed. He interrupts from time to time to mock the whole procedure, and then he grills witnesses with what some say is the technique of a pro. He's a lawyer who has never been in court before, a man who rarely spoke publicly when in office but whom judges have a hard time shutting up. Yet he has made...
...should not mock artistic ambition, especially in a movie time when there is so little of it. But Kelly?s most secure achievements are the brighter, more intimate pieces, like the one in "Summer Stock" with a squeaky floor board and a newspaper folio; finally Gene tears the paper into two, four, six, eight pieces - with his feet. It was in these solo "stunt" numbers that Kelly and Astaire seemed to compete with each other most explicitly; each invented ever-more outlandish and amazing virtuoso bits with props and especially film tricks. Gene dances with his shadow self ("Cover Girl...
...mark the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Purim, Harvard Hillel staged a mock trial of Haman, the sixth century royal advisor who would have committed genocide against the Jews had not the beautiful Esther convinced the king to spare her people, according to Jewish tradition...
Protestors dressed in mock Israeli military fatigues staged a reenactment of a scene at an Israeli checkpoint, pointing fake guns at a Palestinian woman trying to carry her sick child across the border...
...National Cathedral days after the attacks the same guy who walked the aisles wearing a neck pillow, asking Pelosi for her vote? More Jonathan Winters than John Wayne, Bush can't pass the camera without twisting his face in on itself or striking a pose. Often the Governor provides mock counseling to the filmmaker on her careening romance with another member of the press corps. "I predict that you...will have a relationship that goes beyond hand holding," he says of the fling. Bush never leaves PG-13 territory, but that has not kept the White House from fretting about...