Word: mock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...punch line to jokes. He was always keen to remind people that Ennis was a natural and graceful athlete, interrupting a 1985 Playboy interviewer, for example, to say, "Young Ennis, by the way, is now 6 ft. 3 in. tall." In his 1987 book, Time Flies, Cosby makes a mock complaint about Ennis being a reluctant athlete ("My music is the theme from Chariots of Fire and Ennis' theme is Bidin' My Time"). But he admitted, "I could not resist luring my son Ennis out to the track because I wanted to see how my genes looked in a newer...
...mock sessions lasting through Sunday, the delegates will assume the roles of politicians, lobbyists and journalists...
...Mirjana Markovic (Ph.D. in sociology) is easy to mock in effigy. Dowdy but vain, she dyes her hair jet black and often tucks a single plastic flower in it. No one is allowed to imitate the style in her presence. Indeed, no one is allowed to see her brush her hair, not even the President. He once walked in while she was grooming, and she began to weep. She also wept as a teenager whenever she did not get the highest marks in class. She was obsessed with Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, who mourned for a slain brother...
...success begins, as one would expect, with Catherine Ingman's stage direction. A constant, careful and oftentimes outrageous choreography of cast members supplements the humor of the script. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert's wit is very much couched in wordplay and innuendo, and Ingman creates--in effeminate prancing, mock-stealthy stalking and slapstick combat--a physical counterpart to the clever turns of phrases. While such physical comedy can compromise itself with too much zeal or too little precision, this seldom happens. The actors seem to understand the appropriate bounds for their movements and the script is never upstaged...
...gang violence, crack houses, addiction or dead-end despair. Getting high has become almost boringly conventional. Drew (names and some other identifying features have been changed), a regular at the Corner, has even kicked around the notion of buying "New Trier Smoking Club" jackets with his friends and awarding mock varsity letters...