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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boo! (Scared Yet?) | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Stages Street Show | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

Afterwards, a bill was introduced calling for increased support of lesbians on campus that was intended to mock a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) bill passed last month that asked for more support of ROTC cadets...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Considers Decreasing Size and Changing Name | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Awful Truth | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...game of Assassin, in which 70-odd Quincy residents participate, involves groups of students who attempt to "kill" each other in extended mock battles with toy guns...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Assassin Calls Truce After Colorado Deaths | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

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