Word: mocks
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...School's graduate students spend their time wheeling and dealing in "mock political extravaganzas...
...Taming of the Shrew. "We intend to make Shakespeare as successful a screenwriter as Abby Mann." Thus spake Director Franco Zeffirelli last year when he began filming The Taming of the Shrew. The screen credits maintain the mock-the-bard tone: script billing goes to Zeffirelli, Paul Dehn and Suso Checchi D'Amico, with a coy acknowledgment "to William Shakespeare, without whom we would have been at a loss for words." The irreverence in this case is less a shame than a sham. Despite the disclaimer, Zeffirelli has succeeded in mounting the liveliest screen incarnation of Shakespeare since Olivier...
...world for a Japanese role in this matter is so high as not to permit renunciation. We are reaching the conclusion that the best way is, though it is slow and indirect, to build up politically and economically as a true power. We are certanily tired of being a "mock-up" of a major power...
...editorial staff-and would drop in to the office as early as 7:30 to see if anyone was around. No one was ever there at that hour except former Managing Editor Roy Alexander, another early bird, and Luce would look around at the empty office in mock surprise and say: "Hello, Alex-where is everybody...
...exorcising each other's civil rites. As in many outdoorsy pictures, the final referee is nature, played this time by an erupting volcano that pours lava all over the screen. Next morning the chastened survivors rise to found a civilization that will culminate in miniskirts and movies that mock themselves...