A column by Marc Fisher in The Washington Post yesterday began on a mocking note that would have been unthinkable a week ago but which rings less hollowly in the present context.
The killer has driven a spike through Ratnoff's chest and attached a mocking note that mimics Ratnoff's grudging words of commendation, dispatched to copy editors for felicitous headlines: "Nice.
But when the rites that acknowledge legitimacy (inaugurations) become simple rituals (announcements of inflated vote tallies, coronations) and then farces (a man with an umbrella talking to the rain) then the sense of being part of a national drama is replaced by the hurt infuriation one feels when one finds a mocking note pinned to one's back.
In the Post, Michael Riedel is similarly mocking, noting the plethora of existing theatre awards and adding, "If Mimi stumbles, how will writers such as Neil Simon, David Mamet, Aaron Sorkin and Mel Brooks survive?" He also points out that Oskar Eustis, who has long been Kushner's collaborator, is on the trust's advisory committee.
Cal discovers Jack's sketch of Rose and a mocking note from her in his safe along with the necklace.
"We like to plan in the Midwest," Rick said, noting in a mocking tone, "everything has to be like General Motors here.
As Mock notes, this number already exceeds last year's complete total of documented murders according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence programs.
As Mock notes, Seliger's portraiture recalls the indelible images associated with Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning (1990), the seminal documentary that offered viewers a window onto New York's ball culture and its captivating players notable for their tenacity and tenderness.
Patrick Alexander, an inmate who lived next to Matt and Sweat, told the Times he was taken out of his cell mere hours after they'd set up dummies, shimmied through a pipe, and left a mocking, racist note for guards to find the next day.
The book mocks noted French intellectuals for larding their work with mathematical and scientific terms they apparently do not understand so as to lend, in George Orwell's phrase, an "appearance of solidity to pure wind".They cite, for example, Luce Irigaray, a feminist philosopher, who claims that the prevalence of men in science has distorted its ideas.
