Word: sardonicism
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There's a paradox there. His movies are no more stimulating visually than the cable docs they ape. Their sophistication comes from somewhere else. But they get under your skin--O.K., we'll skip the dog-with-fleas joke--and make you think about something most movies have forgotten: the...
He was sardonic, often arrogant, prone to lecture. In parliamentary debate, his style drove the good solid Tories of the opposition into spasms of rage. His shoulders would sag with boredom at a question, his head would sink down and sidewise and he would begin a soft singsong response to...
There's a paradox there. His movies are no more stimulating visually than the cable docs they ape. Their sophistication comes from somewhere else. But they get under your skin - OK, we'll skip the dog-with-fleas joke - and make you think about something most movies have forgotten: the...
Miller's detractors find him too sardonic. What they miss is the fact that to get as riled up as Miller does about the things he bad-mouths, one has to be in love with the world. One must care. Thus my favorite moment on Dennis Miller Live is the...
Back in 1956, TIME called Mad Magazine a "short-lived satirical pulp." Now in his piece stating that irony is alive on the Web [ONLINE, July 17], James Poniewozik refers to Mad and asks, "Were you aware that Mad still exists?" Of course, your readers are aware Mad is still...