Word: mock
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...Students come here feeling like they made a difference [in high school]," says Tanya L. Barnes '00, who revived the Harvard Mock Trial Team and founded the Pre-Law Society with Lauren A. Wetzler '00 and Thomas G. Saunders '00. "It becomes natural to want to have that same thing in college...
Some guests were less sure of Gore's success than they were of McAuliffe's importance in getting him on his way. In jeans and cowboy boots meant to mock the G.O.P.'s black-tie formality, they applauded the man they have come to regard as the party's Lee Iacocca: the marketer who figured out how to diversify the product line to attract new buyers. McAuliffe has succeeded in broadening the Democrats' financial base, which consisted mostly of organized labor, by selling the "New Democrat" gospel of Clintonomics to entrepreneurs who have benefited from low interest rates, investors whose...
Instead of opening fire, however, the hundreds of Pearl River students watching Smith's mock crucifixion wept. They hugged one another, sang and testified to God's greatness and admitted their troubles. When the morning assembly, scheduled for 90 min., finally ended--five hours later--they knew a kind of fatigued ecstasy. They were not aware that they had presented conservative Christians and civil libertarians with a new object of debate: a full-blown, sweat-soaked religious revival in a public school...
...siecle was also a great time for painters whose displaced religious yearnings and hunger for allegory induced them to do mock altarpieces, usually triptychs, whose format signaled the presence of a Big Statement. The most ludicrous of these is by the Belgian artist Leon Frederic, whom the spirit moved to paint, in the 1890s, an enormous three-parter called The Stream, an allegory of the Life-Force (Henri Bergson was a hot philosopher circa 1900) in the form of thousands, thousands, of pink, roly-poly babies cascading down Alpine waterfalls and through a forest glade. This condommaker's nightmare took...
...after them for skateboarding in parking lots. After college, his quirky public-access show was picked up by a Canadian cable channel, and he was touted as the country's next Mike Myers. When he auditioned for MTV in 1998, he slathered himself with shaving cream and went into mock convulsions. "That to me was genius," says MTV programming president Brian Graden. "He delivers attitude and pushes buttons, but he provokes people with a smile on his face instead of a mean smirk." Green's self-titled program has since become one of the music channel's top three shows...