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Satire V (Veritas) written backwards), published Friday and distributed to many dorms, pokes fun at Harvard with eight pages of mock news stories...
...found on newsstands in Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago and Denver, as well as in Madison) and claims 200,000 readers on the Internet www.theonion.com) it will be sold in Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide starting this week. Early next year Crown will publish Our Dumb Century, a compendium of mock front pages from editions of the Onion that, of course, never existed (JOHNSON VOWS TO HONOR KENNEDY'S MEMORY BY TAKING PLUMP YOUNG MISTRESS). And Dikkers says the Onion is talking with one of the networks--he won't say which--to do a special based on the book next...
...explains the difficulties of having hugely overweight leads playing believable romantic roles. In one version of La Boheme, with Jane Eaglan as Mimi, the Met had to build a bed that sunk with her weight to help some of the extra bulk. Hoelterhoff fills the chapter out with a mock "Diva Diet," which begins with a slice of toast for breakfast and ends with an "entire frozen Sara Lee cheesecake" for a late-night snack...
Also available at the Office of Career Services is a library of books on different careers, a daily resume review, numerous newsletters and handouts and a host of informational meetings on everything from interview tips to workshops on writing resumes. Students are also given one mock interview per academic year...
...whose most characteristic museum is dedicated to the memory of Liberace, what room is there for the clean, piercing, complex presence of real works of art? Not much, you'd think. Any public work of art is apt to pale to invisibility beside those neon signs and huge, crass, mock-Hellenistic sculptures. Nothing a mere environmental sculptor could make would have much luck in drawing the eye away from, say, the outside of the Mirage, with its foaming waterfalls and its artificial volcano that erupts on a regular schedule after dusk, except when (a sign informs you) the weather...