Word: sardonicism
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That same decidedly Reaganesque social ease made a great impression on the four Congressmen, including Speaker of the House Thomas (Tip) O'Neill Jr., who were invited to a meeting with Gorbachev in the Kremlin two weeks ago. One of the visitors, Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, made detailed...
Streisand reneges, or Auerbach misunderstands. In any case, Bach is canned, United Artists is sold to MGM, and La Ronde, Hollywood executive-style, continues. Bach writes about all these shenanigans with due sardonic edge, and includes deft vignettes about Robert De Niro, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Martin Scorsese. But...
Somehow this acerbic comedy-drama, about a young man's anomic dalliance with his girlfriend's mom, got mistaken for 1967's feel-good romance (and its sardonic theme song for a love song). It's better seen as New York City's joke on the California dream, by stage...
Or, in yet another light, the production could be seen as a witty, sardonic highly intelligent commentary on 21st century boredom, as told through the words of highly theatrical characters whose world intends to highlight portions of this real one.
Several student audience members even left at intermission, perhaps feeling ill-suited on that particular evening to deal with the sardonic musings of deeply unredeemable characters. However, the majority of the audience not only stayed but remained utterly captivated by the show, and were among some of the first to...