Word: sardonicism
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There are five episodes in Love. The one from Italy is directed by Renzo (son of Roberto) Rossellini, the one from Germany by Marcel (son of Max) Ophuls, the one from Japan by Novelist Shintaro ("The Japanese Franç01s Sagan") Ishihara, the one from Poland by Andrzej (Ashes and...
Andorra, which closed at week's end, was about antiSemitism, chauvinism, responsibility, guilt, and identity. The Firebugs, still flickering, is about action, appeasement, war, and middle-class morality. Like Duerrenmatt, Frisch has a dour and sardonic vision of existence; unlike Duerrenmatt, he is maddeningly repetitive. What he spent more...
* Hove presumably rhymes with love. In a burlesque entitled "Last Drippings from the Great Certified Leak," the New York Times's senior columnist Arthur Krock, never wittier or more sardonic, suggests the word might first have been pronounced when McNamara predicted that a Soviet destroyer would "heave in sight...
It is impossible to decide who gets top honors among the cast. Jill Saxon's portrayal of Constance Neville is clearly the work of a natural comedienne; her timing is excellent, so that her sardonic asides and arch remarks on the mistakes of the night come off brilliantly. Charlotte Eakin...
A Man's a Man, by Bertolt Brecht. This Eric Bentley adaptation of a 1926 play by the late great German playwright uncannily prefigures the process of brainwashing. Amid chalky white masks, silent-movie captions and honky-tonk pianos, a sardonic 20th century dirge is sounded for the death...