sendup

• “For older observers, the maritime metaphor recalls a sendup of Wall Street, "Where Are the Customers 'Yachts?", first published in 1940 and reissued seven years ago.”

  Connecting.the.Dots

• “They might characterize that bit of nonsense as merely a "sendup" and the missing citations as exercises deliberately left for the reader.”

  'Computers in Your Future'

• “There and elsewhere in the story, Hemon nails the macho posturing that prize judges often reward, though his tale is more than a sendup of pomposity.”

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• “He's flattered by copycats and loves Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal, including the video sendup of Jackson's quirks.”

  Archive: Michael in the mirror

• “At this distance—not just from France but from the France of the '60s—the film's social criticism seems quaint: Jean-Louis, his wife Suzanne Sandrine Kiberlain and their rigid friends and associates could be fugitives from a Jacques Tati sendup of bourgeois foibles.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Beware 'Ides of March'; Viva Maids of 'Women'

• “I know, I know, it's a satire, a sendup of rallies, a rally against rallies, a mockery of the entire concept, a grass-roots-inspired, user-generated parody.”

  The Washington Post: The case against Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity, by a 'Daily Show' fan

• “Witness the madcap antics of "The 39 Steps," the Hitchcock sendup still raking in laughs off-Broadway, or the caustic sneer of "Speed-the-Plow," David Mamet's comic slap at deal making in Hollywood.”

  The Washington Post: 'Brief Encounter': Mad about its style

• “Our chills multiplied and we almost lost control anticipating a musical montage, but then the Travolta/Newton John sendup ended up on the cutting-room floor.”

  The Washington Post: The James Franco/Anne Hathaway 'Grease' routine: Now it can be seen

• “But the opera is a comedy, and the production—a sendup of the sacred cows of German Art and Culture—is a hoot that, for the most part, goes with the music and the text.”

  The Wall Street Journal: At Richard Wagner's Old Stamping Grounds

• “Perhaps she's remembering an Army sendup of "Telephone" that went viral on YouTube.”

  The Washington Post: A pyrotechnic bikini? Lady Gaga gives D.C.'s 'little monsters' what they want.

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