Word: sardonicism
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Personal Traits: A chunky, fast-moving man with dwindling black hair, a broad nose, a sardonic look and a perpetual suggestion of 5-o'clock shadow, Mendès-France enjoys a pleasant family life (with an Egyptian-born wife, (see cut), sons of 18 and 20).
Confidence & Command. It is a type of human endeavor that calls for a soul well stiffened with ego. It calls for poise, concentration, vitality and, above all, for a kind of instinctive communion with the camera that comes partly from inner fiber, partly from vicissitude and long practice. Few possess...
The Woman Who Was No More is an offbeat French mystery. It has no hero, and its principal character is an intellectual pygmy who is as real as mud and just as unenterprising. His creators, French Authors Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, have built him into the base of a...
It is easy to see why Berlioz is called the "father of modern orchestration." In Mephisto's sardonic serenade, for instance, plucked strings serve as a monstrous guitar-like accompaniment; in the Ride to the Abyss, woodwinds croak like vultures and wild hoofbeats run through the strings. But the Damnation...
In a moment of historic inspiration, David Owen once organized a society called "The Sons of the Whiskey Rebellion" to invigorate a staid, scholarly convention. Though accomplishing it purpose, the society was short-lived; it lasted only three days and three nights. But, as most of his students will testify...