Word: sarcasm
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Harrison (daughter of novelist Jim Harrison) is something of an anomaly herself: a mystery writer who's not only literate and handy with a plot but possessed of a voice and a vision as well. Her off-the-cuff eloquence and easy sarcasm remind one of a small-town courthouse wit, loitering on the steps with a cigarette, flipping digs at starchy passersby. Her supporting characters and assorted suspects, from a snippety lady historian to a blowsy, big-boned social worker, aren't merely fictional head shots. They have body. Stuck way out on the windy plains together, their passions...
Early in Julie Johnson, the title character's best friend declares "I feel like I don't even know you!" An outburst both of bitter sarcasm and exposed honesty, this declaration epitomizes the humanizing impetus of the play: the need for understanding and the overwhelming alienation of suburban life. In the last full production offered by the HRDC this semester, a small company presented a probing exploration of a middle-class home-maker in her quest to regain control over her own life and come to grips with herself...
...transformation in the public mind. Back in 1994, when he was engineering a series of interest-rate increases, the Federal Reserve chairman was regularly assailed as a zealot willing to strangle economic growth in pursuit of a chimerical goal of zero inflation. Today those jeers have melted to mild sarcasm. ALL HAIL SAINT ALAN, read buttons distributed by Bert Ely, an economic consultant who contends Greenspan is getting undeserved credit for the happy state of the U.S. economy. But to admirers, Greenspan is a monetary wizard. Says economist Allen Sinai: "The Greenspan Fed is the all-time champion in American...
...know it's been so exciting," he crooned with good-natured sarcasm, and then in all seriousness: "But some people have been hurt up here, and if you all could just...
...Sarcasm brought it a lot of life," said Christian J. Westra...