Word: sarcasm
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Matt Howitt '97, an economics concentrator, is a Crimson sports editor. He has worked as a quality assurance engineer for a computer networking company the past four summers. Despite his sarcasm, he is looking forward to being one of Bill's rank-and-file this summer. Occasionally, he is actually funny...
...added, "It was also the first time I had ever played anybody who was so witty and so full of sarcasm and cynicism and fear and ambivalence...
...searched in vain for a hint of irony in Clarke's letter (which was coauthored with Victoria Kennedy '97, who does not hold any elected position in the BSA). But truth be told, such indications would be irrelevant. In such a circumstance, any irony short of unambiguous sarcasm is unacceptable coming from the pen of a student leader...
...Crimson defense not giving up much? To anyone who missed Saturday's game but saw the Crimson's three previous contests, that comment might be chalked up to sarcasm: Harvard's defense has been one of the least successful in the country this season, while its offense has flourished...
This could be a tiresome jape. Making fun of show-biz effluvia has become the easiest, sleaziest way to get a laugh and feel superior. Even cut-rate exploitation movies can possess a delirious visionary gran-deur that makes any sarcasm directed their way seem small-minded. But the MST3K gang have gone far beyond Golden Turkey Awards. For this clever crowd, inept movies are mere cues to asides on politics and society, which they attack with scimitar wit. The show can even be seen as a branch of semiological (and semi-illogical) studies. "I've always been interested...