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...death of irony" may be exaggerated too. Many critics read Letterman's emotional return as the sudden maturing of a wiseacre who had never manifested any real beliefs. As any Letterman fan knows, this is reductive hogwash. "Irony"--as popularly misused to mean a mishmash of easy sarcasm, cynicism and detachment--is ludicrous at a time of mourning, as is Letterman's meaningful irony (which is really a principled response to phoniness). But real irony--the basis of satire--is possible and valuable in addressing war. (Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, for instance, are darkly ironic yet serious...
...SEUSSICAL: THE MUSICAL The critics were Grinches, but this musical of Dr. Seuss stories is surprisingly charming, with popsicle-colored sets, a tuneful Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty score and an irresistible cast. Even the mishmash of Seuss-iana goes down easy. "Green Eggs and Ham" as a marching chant? We like...
...SEUSSICAL: THE MUSICAL The critics were grinches, but this musical of Dr. Seuss stories is surprisingly charming, with popsicle-colored sets, a tuneful Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty score and an irresistible cast. Even the mishmash of Seuss-iana goes down easy. Green Eggs and Ham as a marching chant? We like...
...that Ashbery isn't a good poet, North asserts; it's just that critics miss the mark when analyzing his work. "They're not interested in any of the early stuff we all love," North explains, "like The Tennis Court Oath." The 1962 collection presents a mishmash of generally incomprehensible image fragments intended to reflect the experience of everyday consciousness. "Harold Bloom sort of dismissed The Tennis Court Oath as John getting through to the real stuff that Harold Bloom can understand. I think it's fair to say that, as poets, we don't really think about critics...
...Offspring is at home in that genre, when they stray away, the boys are certainly unwelcome strangers in a foreign land. Forays into more mainstream sensibilities seem a poorly conceived mishmash. On "Special Delivery," high pitched squeals from House of Pain's "Jump Around" trade off against the "ooga-chucka" repetition ripped from Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling," while "Denial, Revisited" could have come from any band inspired by the '90s grunge craze. Offspring reaches too far in attempting to conjure lasting hooks on the more marketable songs, as they seemingly struggle to conjure a chart-topping, radio...