Word: sardonicism
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The Deadly Game (adapted from a novel of Friedrich Duerrenmatt by James Yaffe) catches the author of the bitterly sardonic The Visit in a slightly more playful mood. His playfulness involves the gallows; his answer to man's love of money is to put a price on his head...
The New Haven has one of the worst on-time records (82.8%) of any U.S. road, suffers from a fantastically high breakdown record. Alpert has cut maintenance costs drastically-although, quips one sardonic commuter, "It's not quite come to the point where your wife kisses you goodbye every...
With only each other to treat savagely, they still do a consummate job. In the title story, fat, foolish Rita Cunningham marries her dead husband's stepbrother, a slim, sardonic man with a tomcat's morals and the face of a ''boy film-star." The end...
For the first eleven months no "pusher" approached him. "The record-company guys," he told a TIME correspondent in Detroit last week, "went to the bigger men here. I didn't care because I knew when I was Number One they would come to me. First a guy would...
"Think Big." Motorway madness became the big story of the week. "Drive M-1 for Murder," quipped sardonic Londoners. TV and radio announcers urgently warned drivers against parking on the pavement-or off it either, "until the earth settles."