Word: mocks
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...mein Gott," said Erhard in mock terror. "I hope with me you will work faster. What will you paint...
Four Yale students have been beaten during the last two days in Mississippi, both by police and incensed southern citizens. The Yalies have been working in the mock gubernatorial campaign of Aaron Henry, president of the NAACP in the state...
...amphitheatre was again given over to the maidens and the "gadarawa," this time each group being accompanied by their own troupe of drummers and hornblowers, and each vying with the other to enhance the general cacophany. Then, for a second time, the warriors took the field. Again the mock battle was repeatedly enacted, an advance here, a retreat there, until the crowd was cheering wildly...
Four actors are assigned the protean labor of deviding twenty roles among them. The task of creating four or more characters is a challenge which, unfortunately, none of the performers meets with total success. The one who comes nearest to doing so is Laura Esterman. The mock innocence of her Desdemona-like refrain, "Me thinks my lord hath anger in his look," is as convincing as her langorous intonation of pseudo-Chekhovian eclectic imagery: "I see a cloud shaped just like a samovar." Her Odets mama ("A dry-goods store you don't sneeze at, papa") carries on the grand...
...concrete, complex individual sinner. Newman makes Hud a man of charm and magnetism, a man difficult to dislike. Hud trades shamelessly on his personal attractiveness, but his shamelessness is a characteristic of his society as well as himself. Newman is letter-perfect, from his insolent walk to the mock-tough way he propositions the Bannon family maid. Even when Hud is silent, Newman seems to be thinking in character...