Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They're proud that they read the papers and know every battle of the Vietnam War but are mature enough to admit their lust for the trend-setter bunnies. Not that they get anywhere with the fast crowd. No, they must still alone for their occasional outbursts of sarcasm or their lingering interest in science fiction. Predominantly male (but including a few young women who write bad blank verse and read Virginia Woolf), the special-interest partisans are the hope and promise of their generation...
They are filming a scene that took place Oct. 19,1942, the night Frances was arrested for drunken driving. High on hauteur, Frances stands in the courtroom and taunts the judge with sarcasm. Then she realizes the consequences, asks to make a phone call and is dragged away screaming. Lange goes through the scene ten times-teasing, glaring, hating, crying, shrieking, allowing the camera to read the subtlest nuances on a face that remarkably resembles Farmer's. Graeme Clifford, Lange's editor on The Postman Always Rings Twice and her director on Frances, shouts "Cut! Print!" Lange goes...
...Central Square, with no sign announcing the store's name On one shelf, a rack of pipes is designated "tobacco pipes." The owner of Liberty Tree says he hasn't yet through about whether he will close his two stores, but adds with more than a touch of sarcasm that his decision will depend on "whether I want to go to jail...
Perhaps the most remarkable of all the New Dealers was Harry L. Hopkins, a gangling and often brusque idealist who, in the words of one acquaintance, gave off "a suggestion of quick cigarettes, thinning hair, dandruff, brief sarcasm, fraying suits of clothes, and a wholly understandable preoccupation." Born to poverty as the son of an Iowa harnessmaker, Hopkins had worked one summer among the slum children of New York City's Lower East Side, and that experience turned him into a professional social worker. When the Crash came, Governor Roosevelt made Hopkins head of New York's emergency...
...Wodehouse's descriptions of life in an internment camp. Because of their often light-hearted tone, many believed that Wodehouse was attempting to show the Germans in a favorable light. But a careful examination of the transcripts (which Sproat includes in full in the appendix) shows only the gentle sarcasm which pervaded everything Wodehouse ever wrote. There is no evidence that he sympathized with the Nazis in the tape; in fact, much of what was interpreted as praise in the heat of the anti-Wodehouse sentiments was in fact making fun of the Germans...