Word: sardonicism
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Moore's style takes some getting used to. Experimentation within the medium is the name of the game here, and the author seems to enjoy tossing out symbols for their own sake, creating linguistic tricks, and taking flat-out risks--at once point, the word "Ha!" is repeated without interruption...
Though the script has been in existence for over fifteen years and has traveled several continents, it continues to have about it an air of freshly improvised parody. As with improv, the humor has an underdeveloped quality--potential jokes are left unexploited while the existent ones lack the sharpness of...
DIED. CLEVELAND AMORY, 81, best-selling author and animal lover extraordinaire who fought for the rights of underdogs the world over; in New York City. Amory chronicled his most famous rescue--of his pet cat Polar Bear--in The Cat Who Came for Christmas. But he was also well versed...
The music is recognizably Morrissey's, as sardonic, ironic and melodic as ever.
Boyish, sardonic and stunningly intelligent, Paula, who has never been anywhere else, calls Billings the crank capital of the universe: "The people in my neighborhood all learned crank from their parents. I mostly hung out with 13- and 14-year-olds. It's getting younger and younger every year."