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Irony abounds. On Dinosaur Act, Sweet seems to poke fun at his own hippie- era idols, while Quine's wailing riffs and power chords evoke their bombastic guitar-driven sound. The second half of the record opens with an audio clip from the film Caligula, in which the Roman dictator, played by Malcolm McDowell, declares himself a god; then, on the very next track, comes Ugly Truth Rock, a droll comment on the megalomaniac temptations of stardom...
Moreno has used witty, irreverent commentaries to criticize and poke fun at the Law School's political and gender dynamics. The columnist prides herself on her bluntness...
...unfunniness alone does not offend me, nor do poor drawing skills. In the past, I have been known to read both Dim Wits and Jody without a word of complaint. But when a generally poor quality of cartoon is combined with one infantile poke at women after another, then I begin to feel that something should be said...
...play works best on the level of frantic comedy. Here, the high level of tension succeeds in its task. Both Selig and Haahr have an excellent sense of comedic timing, and play off each other well. They successfully embody "typical" Boston Catholics, and then gently poke fun at these same stereotypes...
...know? Moores is a specialist in ocean crust, which he routinely discovers high and dry in the Sierra Nevada. "The whole vast assemblage of transported deep-ocean rock," writes McPhee, "now rests on California like a ship stuck in sand, listing thirty degrees to the west." Scientist and writer poke through the wreckage. They straddle fault lines and sift through road cuts while impatient drivers speed...