Word: mocks
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...photographs are remarkable. There they all are, the gray brothers, stretching, playing, howling in unison with Fox and his human children, fighting mock battles. Or just sitting, looking out at the world, with half-closed, quizzical eyes, a compelling mixture of Old Dog Tray and Ming the Merciless...
...unbelievable," Cow (the army term for junior) Brad Lewallen said yesterday, and the mood around this tranquil and beautiful campus bears him out. One company (dorm unit) has planned a "Joe Preppie" night for the evening meal, where the cadets will dress "as preppily as possible" in mock-deference to the visiting Crimson, according to yearling (sophomore) Michelle Matthews. Matthews may have an edge; her brother, Mark, is a Harvard sophomore...
Though he rolls his eyes and clears his throat in mock despair, Waits insists that the Big Three-O is nothing to sweat over. "The big ages are sixteen, thirty-three-and-a-third, forty-five and seventy-eight," he laughs. "Turning thirty -- everybody thinks about it, I guess. But it don't bother me, I feel pretty healthy." At which point Waits lets loose a painful succession of coughs, a peal of mucus swirling in the lungs...
...youthful Clarence, through there is more poetry in his long Dream than he has yet discovered. In the play's second-largest part, the Duke of Buckingham, David Huffman speaks admirably, with only an occasional violation of the meter; he is especially good in the scene with Richard as Mock-Monk. Tyrrel is not a large role, but Richard Seer brings sly subtlety to his inflections, looks and gait, and comes up with a real gem of a performance...
...Composer Arnold Schoenberg spent a few months in Barcelona. It seemed only natural for a colleague to suggest that a composition by the revolutionary Viennese master should be played at a local concert. Schoenberg reacted with mock alarm. "I have made many friends here who have never heard my works but who play tennis with me," he said. "What will they think of me when they hear my horrible dissonances...