Word: spoofed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PASADENA DOO DAH PARADE. It all started as a spoof of the Rose Parade, but this zany California happening has taken on a life of its own. This year look for 125 offbeat groups, including the Synchronized Briefcase Drill Team and Snotty Scotty and the Hankies. Nov. 26; noon...
Oliver and Waldeck are serious about what they do, but they do not take themselves too seriously. In fact, they sing an impish spoof of nature lovers to the melody of Under the Boardwalk. The chorus...
...Baker, who danced her way out of the hovels of East St. Louis to become the world's first black international star. From the Roaring Twenties came a Baker persona at once erotic and comic: prancing topless on a Paris music-hall stage, with eyes crossed as if to spoof her naked sensuality. Later came the vision of La Baker, a glamorous chanteuse gowned by Dior or Balenciaga and seemingly the essence of Gallic sophistication...
...elemental assumption in the intelligence game that no security system is foolproof. U.S. investigators reasoned that if the KGB's best technical experts had access to the PCC repeatedly for several hours at a time, they might be able to devise ways to spoof or bypass one device after another. Eventually, they might make it all the way to the equipment inside the State Department and CIA communications vaults without being detected. But, says an official directly involved in this analysis, "I never saw a scenario that was credible." Declares another source: "If there had been a penetration, it would...
Despite its seeming frivolity, the Lampoon's spoof has a serious purpose, according to Eric L. Kaplan '89, one of its two head writers...