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...from a toy. As a document of catastrophe, the scene is far from believable, but its curious power as an image comes partly from the sheer blatancy of its fiction. The fact that the plane, the liner and the sub are sso toylike carries one back to the I mock battles of the nursery, to the child's delight in constructing harmless miniature wrecks that dis charge the aggressions of child? hood. "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." So the real subject of Morley's painting...
...minutes later, about the time it takes the shuttle to make one pass around the earth. Slowing down in front of Challenger's windshield, McCandless asked: "Hey, you going to want the windows washed or anything while I'm out here?" Skipper Brand snapped back with mock military brusqueness: "No, we want you to get out and back before sunset though...
...hard to discern even continents. Some of the prepackaged features, put together in the name of world brotherhood, were embarrassing: John Denver crooned a mawkish ballad at a mass grave for 11,000 victims of the Nazis; and McKay, Frank Gifford and Bob Beattie mugged their way through a mock-boozy time-out in a Yugoslav...
While most students at the Law School prosecute mock trials in moot court. Greg Bialecki steps out of the classroom to learn about the real-world aspects...
...POINT Nixon complains to the judge: "You know the cartoons with the stubble and the jowls--do you realize that I have feelings too?" And in many ways the writers of the play themselves are cartoonists who place Nixon in the most humiliating light possible and mock him; theirs is the mentality of postcards that show a bald Reagan in nothing but his sweatsocks. At the beginning of the play, Nixon spends 10 inept minutes hemming and hawing the words "Testing: one, two, three...uh...uh...four," while fumbling with a tape that keeps blasting out the Goldberg variations. Nostalgically...