Their arrival does nothing to tone down the rage and mockery flying between hostess and host, even if it initially embarrasses Nick and Honey.
The essay's tone – knowing, insiderish, never polemical, and constantly shifting between mockery and studied neutrality – probably accounts for some of its warm reception.
One doesn't have to choose between mockery and sober vigilance, it turns out; both are appropriate, and the paragraphs that invite each follow one after the other.
Unfortunately Mr. Jordan seems unable to organize the film's proliferating subplots with any efficiency or coherence, so it stumbles between mockery and romance and ultimately bogs down in a violent, draggy caper story.
The story, of a pert, shallow undergraduate who falls in love with a mentally disabled young man -- a "challenged athlete" she is coaching as part of a sorority charity project -- is itself more than a little confused, caught awkwardly between mockery and pathos.
Understand that there is a difference between mockery and persecution; that words and pictures are only just that; and that part of the deal is that we rise above offence - yes, even when its towards our religion.
In 12 Years a Slave, however, this reassuring cliche is overthrown, and the relationship between Mistress Epps (Sarah Paulson) and Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) makes a mockery of the one between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen).
"Cape Spin" stumbles in force-feeding some easy mockery: a radio debate between campaign spokeswomen, for example, is framed as a boxing match.
It can be tribute or mockery or something in between, but the new cultural value that results accrues to the minibrand that did the remixing.
Rahul Gandhi's speech at the annual meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry on Thursday morning, and the long, somewhat rambling question-and-answer session afterward, inspired an outpouring of appreciation, mockery and everything in between on social media.
