Word: sardonicism
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"A menu should not merely list food," says Denis O'Sullivan, a vice president of the New York printing firm of B. R. Doerfler, which turns out menus for 625 different restaurants. "It should be a front-line salesman." Bold typography, two-color art work, odd shapes (a coffee...
With a histrionic flair for the crude, sardonic image, Wallace lampoons all of "them," assuring his listeners that they themselves are just as smart as the people in positions of power. The bureaucrats who enforce school-desegregation guidelines "don't have enough sense to know how to get out of...
Plastic Mentality. Oldest of the guerrilla theaters is the Mime Troupe, founded in 1959 by Davis, who had studied mime in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship. Initially, he and his company of 23 performers-as with most of the guerrilla troupes, few have had any previous professional experience-specialized in...
One of the Tommies under his command is hot-tempered, brawling Gunner Danny O'Rourke, who defies ennui not with ambition but with fury. Nicol Williamson portrays O'Rourke as a sardonic, 20th century Ahab, ever raging against a malevolent creation. He sees barracks boredom as proof that...
As in such earlier novels as Square's Progress and Office Politics, Sheed constructs a bright, cutting prose from the dross of everyday slang. He wields that prose with a subtle ear for speech rhythms and a sardonic eye for the telltale gesture. In this new volume, he also...