Word: mock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former Solidarity leader was one of tens of thousands of demonstrators who turned out in cities across Poland last week to mock official government ceremonies honoring the international workers' day. Riot squads drenched Solidarity supporters in Warsaw and Czestochowa with water cannons. There were other demonstrations in Szczecin, Lublin, Wroclaw and Poznan. Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban brusquely dismissed the May Day protests as "pitiful" but announced that the police had detained 684 demonstrators for questioning...
Their repertory includes such come-again classics as Big Bottom, Intravenus de Milo and The Sun Never Sweats. Until recently, the only way a fan could hear them was by buying a ticket to This Is Spinal Tap, a mock rockumentary that chronicles the exploits of a fictitious heavy-metal band. The group called Spinal Tap was only a joke, created for the film by Director Rob (All in the Family) Reiner, 39, and its three main members, played by Writer-Comedians Harry Shearer, 40, Christopher Guest, 36, and Michael McKean, 36. The movie has been such a stomping success...
...ritual seems strange. Things just aren't done that way any more. Not even in Chad, where ten years ago President Ngarta Tombalbaye ordered all high government officials to undergo Yondo, a sometimes fatal initiation ritual combining physical abuse (e.g., flogging, mock burial) with ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina (e.g., crawling naked through a nest of termites). For his pains, Tombalbaye was assassinated within a year, and his people danced in the streets. Americans bear their burdens with better humor. They show no inclination to deal nearly so decisively with, say, the Hubert Humphrey test of presidential toughness. Humphrey...
When MacDonald and Murphy engage in a mock battle towards the end of the second act, their tired, feeble attempt epitomizes the production's most serious faults. In this scene, as in much of the rest of the play, director and cast waffle between satire and farce in a what should be a powerful moment. A little aid from costumes and lights might have made this scene bearable as it is the silliness of the situation is heightened by frumpy shrouds and light too bright to allow for any sense of mystery. The set too hampers the actors efforts...
...Salvador, the report notes, journalists, church workers, women, children and teachers have been victims of abuse by various governmental defense organizations and paramilitary units. The methods include sexual abuse, the use of chemicals to disorient people, mock executions and burning of flesh with sulfuric acid...