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...ironic titles in this series act out, and mock, the social structures she depicts in her more straight-forward anthropological work. Some deal with romance and male-female relationships, such as "Am I Pretty?" an arrangement of seven stag beetles on pebble-wall. One beetle holds a yellow star-shape bead meant to represent a crown. The human cult the beauty pageant is played out by Norfleet's arthropod actors...
...photographs; his twinkling gaze laughs at those who would look at his likeness. John Mortimer peers out from the photo on the jacket of his new book, Felix in the Underworld, in a disconcertingly similar manner. His tightlipped, bemused smile and his merry eyes dwarved by oversize spectacles almost mock idle viewers of the snapshot. Best known for his many short stories and plays about the crotchety, crime-solving barrister Rumpole, Mortimer is hardly considered a literary relative of Orwell's, yet the immense entertainment value of his new book owes a debt to some very Orwellian features...
Danes, meanwhile, is inconceivably wrapped up in the film's mock-seriousness. At one point after Daisy's mother tells her to get rid of all her excess books, she shrieks, "But mom, books are life!" The remark, like many other such lines, invariably provokes laughter. No matter how much expression Danes infuses into each of her inane sentences, her efforts to add complexity to Daisy's underwritten character are hopeless and inescapably pathetic...
...still other Web users, access to good, timely information was even more important than transactions. At Quote.com real-time charts graphically update portfolios throughout the day, and investors can even create "watch lists," or mock portfolios, that monitor alternative investment options. These tools would normally sit on a broker's desk but are now accessible to anyone. "The playing field is slowly starting to be leveled," says Chris Hill, spokesman for the popular Motley Fools, an online investment-advisory forum. "More and more, the individual investor has the tools available at his or her fingertips to compete with the traders...
...show, which ordinarily features a mock joust involving "French bread with a creative twist," will add a costume contest on Halloween...