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...Horne jumps up from the table, swinging her arms in a mock punch scene, one can't help but be struck with the contrast between this lively, gesticulating comedian with the short brown bobbed haircut and laughing eyes, and the calm, cool, unruffled pointguard out on the court, setting the pace and bringing the ball down with a business-like attitude...
...Hasty Pudding Club was founded "to cultivate the social affections and cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism, being the first of duties and sublimest of enjoyments." The club began holding mock trials of its members in the early 19th century, and switched over to burlesque when advocacy got boring. The first show, Bombastes Furioso, opened...
...Iranians subject a TIME reporter to a mock execution
...year. Those fears turned out to be well grounded. Samghabadi was arrested and terrorized in an effort to use him to frame Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, former Foreign Minister and a close associate of the Ayatullah Khomeini, as an agent of the CIA. He refused and was subjected to a mock execution. Now safe in the U.S., Samghabadi tells of his arrest-and flight...
...feature bucking mechanical bulls on which patrons of both sexes risk serious damage to body and ego (see box). A spot called Outlaws, formerly a mud-wrestling disco outside Chicago, provides roisterers (for $2 a pair) with Harrington & Richardson .22-cal. western-style revolvers and nine blank rounds for mock shootouts. At some places, mostly for atmosphere, there are signs announcing NO GUNS, NO KNIVES. NO TIES. For down-the-hatch topers, Chicago's Rodeo offers a selection of booze that includes Redeye whisky, Rotgut Scotch, Panther gin and Snakebite vodka; Rodeo also claims to be the city...