Word: mock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ashong, on the other hand, is animated, dramatic and full of nervous energy when he talks about the play, which focuses on "issues of identity for Africans and African-Americans." He gives mock announcements and reviews of the musical and imitates crowd noise to play up the excitement...
Sure, it's possible I'm just secretly thankful that the Lampoon skipped The Crimson this time around, instead publishing mock versions of the Advocate, Gazette, Independent and Peninsula...
...argue with the mock "Peninsula Woman Presidents of the United States Watch" or "The Peninsula Strom Thurmond Three Bullets Away From the Presidency Watch?" How can you argue with an item in the fake Gazette titled "Loker Commons to Add Customers"? Maybe the Lampoon, if it was responsible, went too far last week by sending dozens of first-years to the Hasty Pudding for a punch event at which they weren't welcome. The prank displayed a callousness and an unmitigated deviousness that cannot be condoned. It was also one of the funniest things to happen on campus...
When I ask him about the mechanics of putting out a mock issue, his comments are vague but intriguing: "There are various ways of getting the fonts," he assures me, divulging that "sometimes you go on raids." While the recent parodies didn't require any covert activity, in the past, "there have been more paramilitary-type efforts...
...grace of an Ang Lee film is in his avoidance of the gaucheries his characters cannot escape. He calls this "a costume drama," but doesn't push the period. "I haven't seen the '70s treated realistically. Most films mock the '70s. But it's both period and very fresh in our memory. That ambiguity fascinated...