Bush placing his manhood in a blind trust — in parody of Bush ’ s using that financial instrument to fend off concerns that his governmental decisions would be influenced by his investment holdings — brought the politician to complain, " Doonesbury ’ s carrying water for the opposition.

Barrie would return for the band's next single, " The Power of Love ", imitating Mike Read in a parody of the DJ's banning of their previous single, " Relax ".

* About 200 Years Ago: This skit which ran during 1975-76 ( to coincide with the Bicentennial Year 1976 ) was a parody of CBS ' " Bicentennial Minutes "; in it, Grandpa Jones would deliver a fractured historical " fact " about the Revolutionary era.

French Marxist film makers, such as Jean-Luc Godard, would employ radical editing and choice of subject matter, as well as subversive parody, to heighten class consciousness and promote Marxist ideas.

The Greeks had no word for what later would be called " satire ", although the terms cynicism and parody were used.

Another staple of Viz advertisement parody are the adverts for public and government services which one would normally not expect to find advertised ; for example, one ad consisted of the words " Raped?

In addition to being a parody of James Bond and clearly being heavily influenced by Peter Sellers, Austin Powers represents an archetype of 1960s Swinging London, with his constant advocacy for free love — defending this attitude in an argument with Doctor Evil by arguing that they were rebelling against authority figures like Doctor Evil and the movement would have used less drugs if they had been aware of the long-term consequences — his use of obscure impressions and his clothing style ( including crushed velvet suits and Beatle boots ).

Austen biographer Claire Tomalin speculates that Austen may have begun this book, which is more explicitly comic than her other works and contains many literary allusions that her parents and siblings would have enjoyed, as a family entertainment — a piece of lighthearted parody to be read aloud by the fireside.

The idea has been put forward that these pairs of tales are deliberately intended as examples of self parody, although this assumes a greater degree of editorial control by a single writer than the history of the collection as a whole would seem to indicate.

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue developed from the long-running radio sketch show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, the writers of which were John Cleese, Jo Kendall, David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and especially Graeme Garden who suggested the idea of an unscripted show which, it was decided, would take the form of a parody panel game.

When Shaw gave Leopold Jacobson the rights to adapt the play into what became the 1908 operatta The Chocolate Soldier with music by Oscar Straus, he provided three conditions: none of Shaw's dialogue, nor any of his character's names, could be used ; the libretto must be advertised as being a parody of Shaw's work ; and Shaw would accept no monetary compensation.

Erik Satie, a contemporary of Debussy, would later parody these sonatinas ( specifically the Sonatina Op.

At the beginning of each show aired after the 1981 season, a title card would appear featuring a parody title of a TV show, with a silly ( often macabre ) picture and the announcer making the following announcement: "( TV show ) will not be seen today in order for us to bring you this ( adjective in character with the picture ) production.

This article was what Sokal thought would be a parody of what he perceived to be the " fashionable nonsense " of postmodernists working in Cultural Studies.

The parody generally follows the outline of The Lord of the Rings, including the preface, the prologue, poetry, and songs, while making light of what Tolkien made serious ( e. g., " He would have finished him off then and there, but pity stayed his hand.

He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, a hallucinating Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment ( in a local jail ) after Homer eats his last meal, left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a purgatory and being engulfed by an " anti-escape bubble " that was attempting to catch Marge ( a parody of a similar device from the ' 60s show The Prisoner ), and he also was run over by Homer in The Parent Rap, after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year.

Starting with Season Three, a show's number would be presented in the sketch-of-the-day teaser segment, a parody of soap-opera teasers, which would highlight a particular sketch that would be shown during that episode.

Matt Groening, the creator of the franchise, expressed a wish to make a parody film named Simpstasia ; it was never produced, partly because it would have been too difficult to write a feature-length script.

Clampett would again use the Three Stooges parody when a later creation of his, Beany and Cecil, faced the " Dreaded Three-Headed Threep ".

The series was originally pitched as a parody of detective series that would have found the " Hunger Force " fighting crime and solving mysteries.

Prior shows would contain elements of parody in certain episodes, but would otherwise be straight-faced adventure concepts, this in the tradition of Carl Barks ' work in the Disney comics.

In these forms, the quodlibet would often feature anywhere from six to fifty or more consecutive " quotations "; the distinct incongruity between words and music served as a potent source of parody and entertainment.

One false move on his part and he would be a dead man.

Strikes should be declared illegal against corporations because disagreements would have to be settled by government representatives acting as controllers of the corporation whose responsibility to the state would now be defined against proprietorship because employees and proprietors must be completely interdependent, as they are each a part of the whole.

For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.

Democratic Floor Leader Claude Kitchin would have no part of the measure.

All across the South there are signs that racial violence is finding less approval among whites who themselves would never take active part but might once have shown a tolerant attitude toward it.

Leaving aside the choice of unilateral cessation of tests as neither sane nor clearly moral, the question must arise as to why resumption of atmospheric tests on our part would not be a good choice.

Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.

Their plan for rotation of leaders promised a salutary blow at `` bureaucracy '' and would enable `` the people '' to take a more direct and active part in running the country.

But perhaps this was a part of the eternal plan, that man's ambition when linked with God would be a driving, indefatigable force for good in the world.

She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.

The best protection would be on the ground floor in the central part of the house.

This part of the equation would then become 4.

The measurements made with the NRL 50-foot reflector, which is altitude-azimuth-mounted, would have shown a systematic change with local hour angle in the measured intensities of Venus and Jupiter if a substantial part of the radiation had been linearly polarized.

Also, it has been suggested that the source of all or part of the dust may not be the same as that for visual or radar meteorites ( Best, 1960 ), and the same distribution would not be expected.

If, in a certain part of the range, it starts life 1 foot longer than do any of the other ( relatively large ) giants, and reaches maturity at, let us guess, 18 inches longer than the others, a quadrupling of the maturity length would result in a maximum of ( nearly ) 40 feet.

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

Since tone systems typically comprise fewer units than either consonant or vowel systems, we might expect that they would be the easiest part of a phonologic analysis.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

) is for the most part a recondite affair, for manifestly, if everyone in the world who could afford the best wines also liked them, the supply would dry up in no time at all.

It would be directed against the actual location of the unjust policy which, for love's sake and for the sake of justice, must be removed, and, indivisible from this, to the economic injury of the people directly and objectively a part of this policy.

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

When he had finished with that, he would go to another part of the hotel and say much the same things to someone else, most probably a busboy.

Mr. Nixon, for his part, would oppose intervention in Cuba without specific provocation.

The administration has said the sales tax proposal is merely part of the segregation strategy, since the revenues from the increase would be dedicated to a grant in aid program.