Word: sardonicism
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The other principal target is a huge, walk-through tableau titled Roxy's, a 1961 re-creation of a 1943 wartime brothel in Las Vegas. One of the girls, Five Dollar Billie, is a mannequin with a virtuous face but a ravaged body (symbolized by a stuffed squirrel climbing...
When they do put up with their world, the college students do so mostly to put it down, cheering on in traditional collegiate fashion the impudent and the impertinent. Sardonic Singer Tom Lehrer remains a remarkably long-lived favorite, with five current records to skip study by. A recent Lehrer...
The party meeting also signaled stricter literary and cultural censorship, largely as a result of the deplorable East German fondness for Western modes. "These monotonous Western hits and dances, the eternal 'yeah, yeah, yeah,' is simply nerve-killing and ridiculous," barked Ulbricht. The East German Min istry of...
White is white and black is black in the new Africa, but the twain meet on one point of principle: even more than each hates the other, they hate anybody who tries to erase the color line that divides them. Such is the sardonic opinion of France's Georges...
Then as now, most sportswriters took themselves so seriously that they wrote about a baserunner stealing home as earnestly as if they were covering the theft of the Mono. Lisa. Woodward kept his subject in perspective, cutting everyone down to size with his sardonic sense of humor. When Dan Ferris...