Word: sardonicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. John J. Rooney, 71, once one of the ruling powers in Congress as chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for the State, Commerce and Justice Departments and the Judiciary; after surgery at Georgetown University Hospital; in Washington, D.C. The blunt-speaking, tightfisted Brooklynite, who served in the House of...
MICHAELS'S STYLE and range partially conceal this tension. The stories run from a page to thirty, at one point in stream-of-consciousness imitation of a bourgeois psychotic and at another, in the ostensibly reasonable tones of a well-read intellectual. Humor is consistently sardonic: clever when discussing the...
Blithe Humor. Hearts of the West, Director Howard Zieff's second movie, abounds in happy eccentricity and cleverness, blithe good humor about fate and a buoyant faith in the happy ending. Lewis, the dumb but ingratiating innocent, is treated with the sort of subdued affection that never becomes condescending...
Of course, the English bourgeoisie loved him for that, and he went on to become the most successful portraitist in the nation, setting down the faces of his friends-poets from Yeats to Dylan Thomas, writers like Shaw, collectors like the flustered and bigoted American John Quinn-with a picaresque...
A funny thing happened on the way to the debut. Patty Hearst surfaced. "This is the kind of newsbreak we want on the show," crowed a staffer, but ABC failed to hustle her parents on camera. Instead, Arledge had to make do with Howard being joshed, on tape, by Senators...