Word: revell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vision. The self-deprecating Jewish humor provides a comic yet despairing perspective and enables Roth to hammer home his points more powerfully. Yet the extremity of this critical introspective and the vindictive nature of such criticism can make both Zuckerman and Roth seem like the very Jewish martyrs they revel in ridiculing. After all, Zuckerman's backaches are only just so interesting...
...this is Italian ice cream," my friends explain patiently. Nationality, however, is not the issue: common sense is. Knock out even one of the existing home grown ice cream stores, and we could revel in cultural diversity, but simply adding to an already glutted market is not contribution to the Square...
...Washington, D.C., Georgetown's Oct. 31 revel has become one of the capital's wildest annual events...
This musical is a cross between a Dionysian revel and an old-fashioned revival meeting. The religion that Hair preaches, and often screeches, is flower power, pot and protest. Its music is pop-rock, and its dialogue is mostly graffiti. Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty. The play itself borders on license by presenting a scene in which half a dozen members of the cast, male and female, face the audience in the nude. This tableau is such a dimly lit still life that it will leave most playgoers yawning...
...PREPPY HANDBOOK, published in 1980, lists more than two dozen phrases meaning "to vomit." This is no mistake. Perhaps more than any other group in recent decades, the youth of the 1980s revel in bad taste. For the generation that grew up with Saturday Night Live and Animal House, nothing is funnier than a well told puke joke...