Word: mock
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...photos as reference for a particular part of the story and I was just amazed sometimes at the bleakness and lack of thought that went into these settings. Human beings: they are living out the grand dramas of their lives in these horrible areas that just seem to mock them at every turn. The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways. Of course that's part of the book...
...exploiting the primal emotions of childhood, in this case sibling rivalry. Danielle, 15, can't understand why her parents and friends find her pesky little brother Peter, 9, so endearing. He's always trying to horn in on her fun. When Danielle and a chum are practicing a mock-hypnotism act for a school skit, Peter--natch--insists that Danielle hypnotize him. Uh-oh. Not only does little brother go into a trance and come out of it with an alarming loss of memory, but also strange voices start emanating from the basement, calling Peter's name. What has Danielle...
PHILADELPHIA--In early morning hours Saturday, the people are still working. They are making goats' heads out of cardboard. They are soaking rags in vinegar to protect against tear gas. They are making peanut costumes to mock money politics. They are filling water balloons with paint. From wire, chain and pipe, they are making tools to shut down Philadelphia...
Soon, Al Gore will go to work spinning his own plausibility in Los Angeles. The Democrats will set up a counter-universe, a counter-America, their own vision of... what? Inclusion? Compassion? Coming second in this exercise, they will have to discredit - to mock - the Republicans' convention. That may give to the Democratic proceedings a derisive and holier-than-thou tone, an atmosphere that may prove unfortunate: a nastiness inside the convention hall may be amplified by protesters' vociferous disturbances outside. The admixture of Streisand/Beatty-style Hollywood chic should contribute an insufferable note. And of course, the Clintons will be there...
...critics' response came last week: a campaign to muster public opposition to the FDA's new rules and to target individual companies and their precious trademarks. The mock advertisements for "Campbull's Experimental Vegetable Soup," with the advisory, "Warning: This Product Is Untested," is only the first salvo. Some 18 other brand-name U.S. companies are on a tentative hit list, including General Mills, Coca-Cola and Kraft...