Word: sardonicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sardonic Metaphor. That is just the trouble. As played, deftly, by Beatty, George is an affable con man who goes no deeper than his own hypocrisy. The reason, presumably, for setting the movie in 1968 is to groom George, the last shabby survivor of the age of grooviness, into a...
Jong's bestseller is the mock memoirs of a 29-year-old Jewish poet named Isadora Wing who accompanies her husband, a psychoanalyst, to a conference in Vienna. There Isadora links up with another analyst, a sardonic weasel of a man named Adrian Goodlove, and takes off with him...
The cast, besides the commendably sardonic Finch, includes some always reliable character types (Griffith, Hayden, Graham Crowden, Patrick Magee, George Coulouris), and Miss Runacre, a skillful actress, who looks smashing into the bargain. The Last Days of Man on Earth, fractured and funny, is an authentic curiosity. Pace Woody Allen...
The war was begun in a sense by one madman, John Brown, and ended by another, John Wilkes Booth, as Foote says. At any rate, it introduced modern America. Perhaps it was a sardonic premonition that after Lee and Grant met at Appomattox, souvenir hunters wrecked the house where the...
The format was to become a permanent structure. Even today, Benny's influence still echoes around the channels. Jack's wisecracking girl friend -and offstage wife-Mary Livingstone is the original of Rhoda. Don Wilson, the pompous announcer, can be seen in Ted Knight's role on...