NBC's "30 Rock" devoted one episode to mercilessly mocking product placement even as it placed its sponsors' products in the script.
The S.E.C. asserted that the exchange did not devote enough money to enforcement even as it was spending millions of dollars to win market share away from the Nasdaq from 1998 to 2001.
It even went so far as devoting a full button to Bixby, even as it made a big show of ditching the big home key up front.
It's also a film that highlights the artifice of performance even as it affirms the sometimes tragic, sometimes tawdry authenticity of a life devoted to it.
Much of his early life was devoted to trying to revive the Gladstonian roots of the Liberal Party, even as it succumbed to the influence of Keynes and others.
Indeed, the chapters devoted to thepost-apartheid period are stridently criticalof Gordimer, whom Roberts depicts as theembodiment of a hypocritical white liberalismthat takes a paternalistic attitude towardblack South Africans even as it makes protestationson their behalf.
Even, as it turns out, Jennifer Lopez.
China has spent $45 billion — even more than it devoted to remake Beijing for the Olympics — to mount an elaborate World Expo, inviting 189 countries to showcase a polished, vibrant Shanghai that it envisions as a financial capital for the region, even the world.
He would return to the subject again and again, for example in his reworking of the Midas myth, in which a daughter, Marygold (and thus another flower), is turned into the metal by her father's kiss, even as he devotes his life to accumulating treasure for her sake.
