Word: sarcasms
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...vignettes later, however, they swing back from the sarcasm verging on the theater of the absurd in Acting to the tender sincerity of Watching the SLEEPING Lover. As MAN sleeps, WOMAN contemplates him, musing. "You look like my child." The familiar form of the words--a monologue addressed to a silent lover--assists the poetry in the lines: "I embrace you in sleep; my arm moves with your breathing...
...allies as a deceptive response to Ronald Reagan's original proposal to eliminate all U.S. and Soviet missiles in the European theater. Initially known as the "zero option," this proposal has been rechristened in Washington the "zero-zero" plan. Said Reagan last week, with intense sarcasm: "The Soviets have met us halfway .. . they have proposed zero on our part...
...speech anyway, incensing the French, who immediately disavowed any accord. That night U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith was called out of a U.S. Marine Corps ball in Paris and summoned, in tuxedo, to the Quai d'Orsay for a chewing-out. Two days later Mitterrand declared, with Gallic sarcasm, "France is not a party to what is not even an agreement...
...sarcasm stops when the insurance man learns of a mysterious cult (the "Names" of the title). The ritual murders committed by these ragged, nomadic zealots are as easy as ABC. Their formula, revealed by Owen Brademas, an aged American anthropologist, is based on polyglot alphabets twisted into a system of worship. The killers simply match the initials of elderly or crippled villagers with those of towns. When the sacrificial names collide, their hammers fall. For Brademas, these deaths reveal a new layer of violence: "We thought we knew this setting. The mass killer in his furnished room, in his century...
...fail to see how responsible intellectual discussion of the problems facing a college or university can harm that college or university. But over the past two years. The Dartmouth Review has often degenerated into little more than a thin veil for personal attacks, racist comments, and an offensive, satiric sarcasm, thereby belying the principles of the very conservatism they claim to espouse and causing deep divisions within the Dartmouth community as a whole...