Word: poking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, Ludmila Shtern's fictional sketches poke fun at some of the gravest problems of everyday Soviet life, including endemic food shortages and epidemic alcoholism. Shtern, 48, who taught geology in Leningrad, has combined her new writing career with selling real estate in Boston. Vastly popular with émigré readers of the Novoye Russkoye Slovo (New Russian Word) and other Russian-language publications, her fiction is beginning to break into the pages of little magazines in the U.S. such as Stories and Pequod. Back in the Soviet Union, Shtern recalls, magazine editors regularly dispensed praise along with...
...thing to poke fun at other universities, but quite another to call college presidents illiterate. Although the intent may have been humorous, that was not the impression I received...
That in a sentence sums up what is both right and wrong about Tomfoolery: the show relies on nostalgic appeal and not on fresh ideas. The social and political institutions which his one liners--set to simplistic and repetitive melodies--poke fun at are dated...
...easier for the audience to read the first and second acts as a light hearted attempt to poke fun at campus stereotypes rather than as a statement about their motives. But this lighthearted tone strikes a sour note at the end of the second act with the tragedy of Joan for which the audience is unprepared...
...look at that charming sequined blouse, the game would be up. Whatever man stopped first would have a natural opening line--"Oh, c'est belle, c'est belle"--which would be enough to get his arm around her shoulders. If he happened to be under 16, he might poke her nipple instead, by way of expressing approval of the blouse. Or by then she might already have hung it back up, sighed, and strode out of range...