Word: parodists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dante, a gifted parodist, adds spice to the gruel with glancing references to vintage cartoons, Sergio Leone movies and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. His sight gags can be as nimble as a house number that, when budged, somersaults from a nine to a six, revealing the new neighbors' address as 666, the sign of the Antichrist. But like many a Hollywood Voltaire, Dante wants his Candide candied. This is satire that hedges its bets. By the end, Ray and his friends must be heroes as well as oafs; the new neighbors must be villains as well as victims...
...know, I know--it provides scholarship money for those members, poor things, who cannot afford to pay their dues (Jeez...this is so silly, such a parodist's dream of Harvard, sometimes I think I make this stuff up). No doubt, this is a worthy cause--consider it social financial aid--but where else does all that money...
...satirical story, "Something Pure," in which the Second Coming is incarnated in an advertising agent whose unorthodox sales techniques earn him hatred and ridicule, alerted an English professor to Reed's gifts as a storyteller and parodist...
...Knopf; $20) is wider in scope. A collection of some 70 speeches, magazine articles, book reviews, radio broadcasts and record-liner notes, it displays Gould's controversial musical perspicacity in such essays as Data Bank on the Upward-Scuttling Mahler and Hindemith: Will His Time Come? Again?. An accomplished parodist, Gould mocks Arthur Rubinstein's kiss-and-tell autobiographies in Memories of Maude Harbour: "I resolved to address every note of my performance to her and her alone and to inquire into the country's statutory-rape provisions at intermission." Gould even gleefully assaults the sacred memory of Beethoven, saying...
Though the actual groundbreaking is years away, preparation has already started. The guidebook for this magical museum was published late last year. Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error, by Mark Green (a former Nader Raider) and Gail MacColl (a veteran preppie parodist who worked on The Preppie Handbook and an L.L. Bean catalogue spoof), diligently tallies the seemingly endless stream of Reagan's assertions that only the "Great Communicator" himself has been able to substantiate...