Word: mocks
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...characters without sub-stantiating their dialogue. An orthodox rabbi, singing Hebrew, is murdered by Cossacksin Russia; his son Zalmie immigrates to America, hanging out in smoky vaudeville dance halls, entranced by the grotesque bodies of showgirls. He grows up fast, losing his virginity in a dressing room after a mock strip tease. Trying to appear tender and symbolic, Bakshi never fleshes out the people enough to make them more than the cartoons they...
...daughter parched for love. In short, he is a mess, but he is the kind of mesmerizing mess that more men see in the shaving mirror in 1981 than did in 1965 when the play opened in New York. Now as then, Williamson is incandescent. He intuits every mock-marked desolating crevasse in Maitland's character...
...TIRED to Boogie," a lengthy disco scene, radiates the pathos and misfortune of academic types seeking to relieve their boredom in the foreign environment of strobe lights and glass balls. In contrast, a '50s bobby-socks mock-up allows the singers and dancers to wail over the alienation of their social life by oppressive education appeal to the audience as reminders of the elite status that three years at the Law School provide to those who choose to undergo whatever social barbarism it imposes. The show's authors depict the painstaking process of interviewing with corporate law firms, an experience...
...Filipinos were on hand to enact earnest welcoming playlets, sing, dance or pose as "tribesmen" in outdated garb. During one motorcade, a phalanx of trained water buffalo knelt in reverence just as the pontifical car swept by, while at another point a beaming bride and groom in a mock wedding paused in mid-ceremony to wave to the Pope from a bamboo roadside chapel...
...administrators are considering disciplinary action against a fraternity that staged a mock rally in Harvard Square Saturday demanding capital punishment for homosexuals, the MIT News Office reported yesterday...