Word: sardonicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They carried sardonic, sometimes blunt placards that demanded the impeachment of Richard Nixon but also cried confidently that THE SPIRIT OF '76 LIVES.
Scott is never animated, never even engaged. Others - including Trish Van Devere and the others (excepting Paul Sorvino, who makes an amusingly sardonic spook) - embody the antique definition of good children: they speak only when spoken to. In the case of such actors as Fritz Weaver and Elizabeth Wilson, this...
With the law looming on one side, the mob moving in on the other, Charley Varrick is the definitive outside man-or, as he bills himself, "the last of the independents." As he has shown previously in Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Director...
Charlie Schuyler's memoirs are considerably more omniscient than those of his obscure model. For they include Burr's own memoirs as dictated to Charlie, his would-be biographer. The Burr sections are Vidal's skillful précis of Aaron Burr's actual letters and...
Your reviewer reproves me for "sardonic excesses," saying I am "capable of snapping that a man with a dicebox might grant and deny paroles as fairly as most boards." That was snapped not by me but by Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, and so attributed in my book. The...