Word: sardonicism
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Even the hocus-pocus of Madison Avenue wags cannot conceal the charm of this seething French thriller. Forget the yellow shirt and the unsigned promise. In the vein of a sardonic O. Henry, Diabolique sometimes is ghoulish and gross, and is never very subtle. The ending, quite as startling as...
A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor, was not just another book of short stories about Southern brutality. For a woman in her 20s, Author O'Connor proved herself a sardonic connoisseur of unexpected sources of evil.
The New Haven shows a $3,300,000 jump in operating income this year, de spite a $1,400,000 drop in passenger revenue. The improvement is at least partly the result of stepped-up freight service, e.g., interline piggyback service (a phrase that wryly amuses sardonic commuters), which was...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS) is the naked title of one of the new crime shows, and the movie director with the fine hand for murder and mayhem should be recommendation enough for TV fans of terror and torment. Unhappily, the best part of the show is...
¶Sex in all its public forms fascinated Marsh. For sardonic effect he sometimes reproduced in his paintings Manhattan's steady flow of tabloid headlines (DOES THE SEX URGE EXPLAIN JUDGE CRATER'S STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE?). But above the litter and trash of the streets, Marsh saw in the...