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...almost anything to get Leslie Fiedler to smile upon him. He never smiled on me." Indeed he did not. The champion of Norman Mailer and John Earth once called Updike "a strangely irrelevant writer." Updike later took gentle but effective revenge. At the end of Bech: A Book, a mock bibliography lists critical works on the imaginary author, including "Fiedler, Leslie, 'Travel Light: Synopsis and Analysis,' E-Z Outlines, No. 403 (Akron, O.: Hand-E Student Aids...
Frank L. McNamaru '69, Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Represenatives seat in the state's 8th district, trounced Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., the long-time Democratic incumbent, by eight percentage points in a campus mock election yesterday...
...President has himself done more to mock the idea of fiscal rationality than House Speaker Tip O'Neill and the rest of the Democratic establishment could have even if the worst presidential charges of liberal profligacy were true. Reagan has dissolved national revenues with his misguided tax cuts while increasing military spending to a projected 7 1 percent of the Gross National Product--up from 5.6 percent. He berated his opponents for "stonewalling" and "budget-busting," while his own administration racked up the largest deficit of all time. Simultaneously, Reagan has taken credit for the dip in inflation rates without...
...reaching one, unless the defloration of the dressmaker's dummy can be reckoned as steamy. Octavia's lovemaking with her fetishist, involving half a dozen or more petticoats and "fifty or sixty or even seventy yards of trimming" (including the boa) is rewardingly comical. Still, Oates' mock-Victorian diction has imposed its own restraints, as exemplified by such pronouncements as: "I am heartsick that there may well be those persons of the masculine gender, who, lacking an intrinsic purity of character, may, by laborious effort, and much unseemly exercise of the lower ranges of the imagination, summon...
...about the war and its effects on life in the FMLA-controlled Morazan region in northeastern El Salvador. The first, Morazan, depicts the running of a makeshift outdoor guerilla munitions camp. It opens with a group of teenagers solemnly passing out rifles and pistols, which they then use in mock-combat drills. The fact that the FMLA would allow the filming of a place where their guns and bombs are produced plainly indicates the political orientation of the filmmakers. But this in no way detracts from the value of these inside glimpses of the revolutionary movement, which include footage...