Word: sarcasm
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...Klein's "Passing the Torch" was a tonic for me [Nov. 17]. During the Republican National Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't even know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin--with sarcasm that made my skin crawl--remarked that she guessed that a "small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," the insult was personal and deep. For the first time in my life, I donated financially to a political campaign--Obama's. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been gone for 10 years...
...would benefit from banking chaos - but he does address, on the book's first page, the personal-credit crisis, which he sees as our citizens' response to Bush's call to defeat the terrorists by going shopping. "So a million homes are snatched from hard-working Americans!" he writes, sarcasm dripping from the page. "THAT'S A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR FREEDOM...
...obvious reference point is To Kill a Mockingbird, whose girl narrator, Scout Finch, is 6 to Lily's 14, and whose fictional setting is Maycomb, Ala., instead of Bees' Tiburon, S.C. But that was back when most big films tended to serious sentiment. Today, the dominant tone is irreverence, sarcasm, facetiousness. Can a time-capsule movie like this one have any resonance today? Can it find an audience to nurture in the old, noble, now-discredited Hollywood traditions...
...have sort of a dark sense of humor, with sarcasm permeating through both of your books. What influenced your humor, and do you yourself find it dark...
...hours before the House of Representatives smacked down the financial-bailout package, I watched John McCain - eyes flashing, jaw clenched, oozing sarcasm and disdain - on the attack in Ohio: "Senator Obama took a very different approach to the crisis our country faced. At first he didn't want to get involved. Then he was 'monitoring the situation.' That's not leadership; that's watching from the sidelines." And I thought of Karl Rove. Back in 2003, at the height of Howard Dean mania, Rove was skeptical about Dean's staying power as a candidate: "When was the last time Americans...