Word: mocks
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...Fleshtones also pull some catchy melodies out of their musical bag. "Deep in My Heart," with its ubiquitous "cheesy" Farfisa and Zaremba's mock crooning matches Romans Gods's "Hope Come Back" for hook quotient, while the mockingly stupid "Screamin Skull" competes with the Cramps' "Human Fly" for pure schlock brilliance...
...Thatcher's tour of the Far East last year if he would be wearing any particular hat, Denis shot back, "No hat, just my usual place half a step behind." Another time, commenting on his role in helping his wife campaign, he quipped in his best mock Cockney, "It's just a job. I do me best." And once when someone asked if he and Maggie had separate bank accounts, he replied, "God, yes, and separate beds...
...Duluth. The novel is a shotgun satire of, among other things, the modern literary racket, from assembly line romances to academic criticism. Take, for example, Vidal's mock theory of après poststructuralism: "Corollary to the relative fictive law of absolute uniqueness is the simultaneity effect, which is to fiction what Miriam Heisenberg's law is to physics. It means that any character can appear, simultaneously, in as many fictions as the random may require." This is meant to explain why characters who die in Duluth can reappear in a TV show of the same name...
...That key word in the Harvard vocabulary last year sparked a maelstrom of mock controversy and media attention. When officials announced that the green growth would have to go to make way for wholesale refurbishing of the aging Houses, students protested and reporters from around the world zoned...
...tagging along at any GOP functions he could get into. In 1976, he supervised the township youth campaign for a U.S. Congressional candidate. Elliott's man lost but took Bremen by a wider margin than he received in his home township. "The first big break," the senior recalls with mock seriousness...