Word: mock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country, with nearly 5 million visitors a year. Unlike Walt Disney World and Disneyland, which rank ahead of it, Heritage USA charges no admission. The grandiose 2,300-acre project, which is years away from completion, includes Bakker's Assemblies of God church, a 500-room luxury hotel, a mock turn-of-the-century mall with 25 boutiques under an artificial sky, and an amphitheater for staging passion plays and living Nativity spectacles...
Students at Brown University this week made 10 mock graves complete with tombstones, moss, and flowers in preparation for this weekend's meeting of Brown's governing boards. The trustees' main agenda item: should the University divest...
...There are also wooden fences, sheds and nondescript little structures of a vaguely maritime sort. The boats and sheds crop up again around the walls in big, lush paintings of bay shores and creeks, giving a mirroring effect: Are these paintings of real scenes, or of boat-sculptures and mock houses in a landscape, or what...
Among the younger designers, jokes tend to be about the future, but a future as it was conceived in a more hopeful past. It is a neat trick. This strain of the new-wave sensibility is an ironic mixture of nostalgia and contempt, simultaneously mock futurist and mock historicist. The allusions are to old television and B movies. At the Whitney, Dakota Jackson's UFO-shaped Saturn stool (1976) and R.M. Fischer's enormous, intimidating Max lamp (1983) are like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne...
During the synod, one lay Catholic, a U.S. feminist who was wearing a priest's stole, attempted to celebrate a mock Mass on an altar in St. Peter's Basilica; two Vatican guards removed her. Bizarre though the incident was, it dramatized a growing issue in U.S. Catholicism: demands of women for fuller involvement in the church. The synod fathers did allow women, including Mother Teresa of Calcutta, to attend, but only as nonvoting "auditors." Bishop Malone sought to bring the women's message to his colleagues, but lack of interest among the majority of delegates from developing nations...