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...Middle East. In Beirut, Arabs poured into the streets to light funeral bonfires of old tires, shoot off rifles and explode dynamite charges; 14 people were dead by the time the frenzy faded three days later. In countless Arab towns and villages, weeping men bore empty coffins in mock funerals, with women following behind, tearing their hair in grief...
...Paul Newman poster had fallen down for the hundredth time." Together, Eileen and George designed a flat vinyl-like, baroque frame that sticks to a wall, can be adjusted to fit pictures of various sizes. From there, the designers went on to produce other kinds of stick-on mock furniture...
...humiliation in 1936 at the hands of Franklin Roosevelt to become a minor elder statesman of the Republican Party. K-State, as political instinct and the Secret Service informed Nixon, was a comparatively safe campus on which he could propound his ideas on radical violence; Nixon won the 1968 mock election there...
...primitive tribes, the fables of Aesop and the tales of the Grimm Brothers. As society grows more sophisticated, so do the stories, which progress from the wishful to the satiric, from the leisurely to the Swift. In Anatole France's Penguin Island, for example, birds are used to mock the church. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the target is Communist society...
...second color-television commercial, an elaborate mock subway entrance was built on an empty Hollywood lot, and the lion performed on it. The rest of the lion scene...