Word: sarcasms
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DICAPRIO: Just remember how great sarcasm translates into print...
...made it a performance. We've talked about movies forever, so getting moviemaking down to shorthand while we were working was a kick. I've actually known all these fellas a while--though we've rarely talked about anything but work. And we like one another too. Sarcasm is better than that answer, incidentally. [Laughter...
...could match the gyrations of Cleese's barbed satire, such as a skit "about a dog that has got trapped somewhere and people were being killed in the hundreds trying to rescue it." His 6ft.4in. frame nurtured a majestic scorn, whose clipped syllables instantly evoked centuries of institutionalized English sarcasm and sadism in the form of teachers and civil servants. He could apply this furious condescension to petty bureaucrats, a cheese or parrot shop customer, a professional arguer - almost anybody...
...show sends up the usual Tinseltown types, but Kightlinger thoroughly rounds out Jackie, giving her the kind of drawling feminist sarcasm rarely seen since Roseanne left sitcomdom. Cynical yet principled, bitter but still ambitious, Jackie wants to conquer Hollywood yet not be of it. (She refuses, for instance, to drive.) She's the kind of tough, tart 21st century broad you would expect to idolize a '30s Derby queen: she's armed with a Billy Wilder wit and unafraid to throw elbows. And it's refreshing to see a sitcom about a woman past her 20s who is obsessed with...
...Lightfoot song and the climax of the album. The lyrics describe how one might imagine a lover as beyond perfect, “just like an old-time movie ‘bout a ghost from a wishing well.” Where Lightfoot sang the lyrics with patent sarcasm, Cash treats them as an honest declaration: “you know that ghost is me,” he admits over a warm piano accompaniment, “and I will never be set free as long as there’s a ghost that you can?...