Word: sarcasm
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...made out to be a buffoon. After the Terrapins had compiled six marginally impressive victories in seven games against weak competition in December, and lost the seventh by 20 points at Virginia, Sports Illustrated staffer Curry Kirkpatrick unloaded on Driesell and Maryland with a fairly unbridled display of sarcasm...
...Anthem album to the portrait of a "Dark Star." Contrast the frenetic percussion work of Hart and Kreutzmann on "Caution" and Anthem to the brilliantly subtle and suggestive use of gongs, bells, cymbals on the later effort. Try "Alligator", a piece of unabashed musical sarcasm complete with a three-part kazoo introduction, on which Garcia's guitar solos are mocking and derisive. "Dark Star", however, displays a tone of ethereal coldness and humility. For twenty minutes, Garcia, Wier, Lesh, and Constantine weave in and out of each other, building harmonic bridges over acid rivers designed by mad chemist Stan Owsley...
Inherent Contradiction. Britain's move took considerable diplomatic courage, but it also reflected a growing exasperation, expressed by Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home in a letter sent several weeks ago to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. "I take it," Sir Alec wrote in tones of elaborate sarcasm, "that you yourself are fully informed of the scale of Soviet intelligence activities in this country...
WITH the notable exception of Galbraith's exercises in sarcasm, books on business rarely win much public attention. Even before its official publication last week, however, America, Inc. had stirred widespread debate. The authors, Morton Mintz, a top investigative reporter for the Washington Post, and Jerry S. Cohen, former staff director of the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee, argue that big business is running the U.S.-and running it into the ground...
...they made their way to the front of the bus, Clyde called out with just the right touch of sarcasm, "Hope y'all enjoy...