Word: sarcasms
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...course, little in Shakespeare is that simple-mindedly didactic, and many productions of Taming play up the irony of Kate's position, treating her surrender as a victory of sarcasm or love or something else. But director of this play as an unbridled assault of headstrong machismo against virtuous female independence, and tries "to image a Katherina who is truly made submissive, who really relinquishes her will, who is just as broken as nay hunting falcon or busted bronce...
Jake appears torn between the two great adolescent impulses: rebellion and brooding. Jake the brooder downs wine with his girlfriend, races across town on his motorbike, and walks everywhere with a permanent glaze of confusion and despair. Jake the rebel plays the quintessential smart-ass, letting out sarcasm faster than he can understand it. This Jake mouths things like "Don't ever touch me or my brother again," even as Sam appears ready to smash him into the wall. This Jake assures his brother's principal there will be no more fights "Because I promise...
...walk in the woods" initiative undertaken by chief negotiator Paul Nitze, ends with a fizzle. This informal proposal, worked out exclusively between Nitze and his opposite number Yuli Kvitsinsk, would have "traded" deployment of the Pershing lls for a significant reduction of the SS-20s. Talbott describes with withering sarcasm the process by which the Administration repudiated Nitze's action, seeming to put the onus for stalemate on Washington. But he ends his chapter lamely with this...
...Will, the blind boarder so afraid of pity he covers himself with a brittle shellac of sarcasm, slowly comes out of his shell in the warm atmosphere of the Spaulding's farm. One of the most effective scenes comes when he and Possom, Edna's young daughter, stand outside a room in which Frank, her brother, is "getting a licking." Terrified by the sounds of whipping within, Possom quietly slips her hand into Mr. Will's. The simple gesture and the expression of bewilderment and joy that slowly spreads across Mr. Will's face convey a host of emotions...
...well-rehearsed and spirited band it is, makes its entrance lovely attired in semi-elegant dresses of the era. As the Master of Ceremonies (Mark Meredith), with great mocking ostentation, proclaims in his welcome. "Everything is beautiful...the girls are beautiful even the orchestra is beautiful." Indeed, this sarcasm unveils one of the major themes of Cabaret--ugliness, the ugliness of Nazism. In the production, we are shown how those with a direct view of the movement could be blinded to for could wish a ignore) the growing stength, evil and danger of Hitler and his followers...