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It seems, then, that Freud’s idea about jokes is eminently applicable to the YDN’s April Fools gesture, which marks not so much an innovation in content, but rather one in form; an ironical joke has been substituted for what had already been stated in...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, | Title: Yale-pril Fools! | 4/9/2002 | See Source »

I was immediately enchanted. I got to know that opening by heart, and for many years allowed it to play in my head when I was trying to summon up a new book, hoping that what would come to me would be as easy and direct and ironical, as visual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Master of Small Things | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

The plot synopsis in the notes for the retrospective concludes with the sentence, "Film ends as Jof, Mia and their child walk off towards a new day." That is as cliched a sentence as one can find, but the ending of "The Seventh Seal" is far from cliched. Just as...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Bergman Receives Seal of Approval | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

First thought, on looking at the billboard: nice idea; angry, bustling little Danny DeVito and cool, self-ironical, hulking Arnold Schwarzenegger as twins. Should be funny.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double The Pleasure | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

CBN and the renovated PTL cannot afford to take any chances with their images. As the Bakkers' escapades showed, the sins of one preacher will be laid upon another. Swaggart's downfall will add to the broad-brush contempt that many are heaping on the evangelical and Pentecostalist religions, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now It's Jimmy's Turn | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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