Word: sardonicism
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The farce moments can be entertaining and brightly cockeyed. The old maid daughter (well played by Martine Bartlett) is both amusing and touching. The son's outbursts can have a mad-dog howl and bite. But so abruptly do things shift focus, so wildly do they change tone, that...
"Fuzzy Sportsmanship." Such attacks, often made in sermons published the next day as full-page ads in the student newspaper, led last year's whimsically sardonic senior class to name Halton as their favorite comedian, and the man "least likely to send his son to Princeton." But the administration...
Of WILY's three hard-driving Negro disk jockeys, two will be replaced by white men, one will remain: Sir Walter Raleigh, whose haughty, sardonic British accent seems to make hipsters flip. Says Raleigh, as he lays on such "crazy wax" as O Bop She Bop and Rockin'...
If Noah is the man whom everyone trusts, Winner's other partner, Julius Penrose, is the man who mistrusts everyone. His is the scalded mind of the archskeptic who has supped so full of human follies that the race of man almost makes him retch. Crippled by polio, he...
Scope for Scope. Freberg, 31, is a very funny fellow who is clearly torn between his need for an audience and his desire to speak his mind. His orneriness was planed down over the past year when he and Producer-Writer Pete Barnum wrote and rewrote a long succession of...