Word: send-up
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...looked like a send-up of a Timex-watch commercial. In the parking lot of the U.S. federal building in West Los Angeles, an eight-ton steamroller moved back and forth over a pavement strewn with more than 4,000 wristwatches. Yet, when the torture stopped, not a watch was ticking...
...sound sometimes takes on Tex-Mex overtones, or even a certain savor from Cajun territory. Ely's sources are scrupulously eclectic. Perhaps his nearest spiritual peer is that old renegade Jerry Lee Lewis. Live Shots contains one old tune, Fingernails, that may once have been intended as a send-up of Jerry...
...they are longtime rivals, each responded with a hearty da when Choreographer Paul Taylor suggested that they pair up at the opening night gala for his New York dance company. The result was about as Russian as apple pie. In From Sea to Shining Sea, Taylor's 1965 send-up of American life, Baryshnikov played an office worker and George Washington, while Nureyev portrayed a workman and a Brando-like waterfront tough. During a pas de trois romp with Dancer Gwen Verdon, they hoisted her up onto their shoulders, then discovered that she was facing away from the audience...
Vidal fans might, at this point, expect a typically witty send-up of Herodotus and of classical Greece in general. But though he gives the Athenians the back of his hand whenever possible, Cy rus the narrator really has several other missions on his mind. He wants to tell the story of his long life and his decades of service to the Persian Kings Darius the Great and Xerxes. Even more urgently, as a grandson and the last descendant in the male line of the prophet Zoroaster, Cyrus feels obliged to argue theology, to devise an acceptable theory...
...watch some skits from their all-male musical spoof, A Little Knife Music. Streep, an old Eli who studied acting at the Yale School of Drama, was presented with a gold pudding pot, and was also granted custody of one of the burly "chorus girls" who surrounded her-a send-up substitute for the kid she lost to Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer. "I hope my son never turns out like this," cracked Streep good-naturedly, stroking the Harvard lad's muscled shoulder...