Word: sardonicism
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Evita is not so much about Argentine politics as about the English obsession with class. Eva, the illegitimate daughter of an estate manager whose funeral her servant mother was forbidden to attend, gets back at the middle class with her upwardly nubile conquest of the military aristocracy. Our guide in...
Arlo was born in 1947 to folk legend Woody Guthrie and dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie of the Martha Graham company. Arlo emerged from his father's shadow with his debut of Alice's Restaurant Massacre at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967. Although he would take a number of tacks...
But ultimately it is the character of Dr. Relling, the Ekdals' cynical, dissipated neighbor, who becomes the dominating symbol of this production. Foil and foe to Gregers, profoundly contemptuous of the latter's lofty "claims of the ideal," convinced that the average man or family (like the Ekdals) needs lies...
DiFranco has been a folk firebrand, dealing with such topics as abortion, capital punishment and sexual identity on past albums. On Dilate she mostly focuses on a single subject: a traumatic romance she's been involved in for about a year. The songs are sardonic, self-flagellating and self-referential...
That was five years ago. There were flaws in the geometry; a wooden scaffolding caught fire; confidence in a money-raising public offering collapsed. Stupak had to sell all but 17% of his ownership, and the project was taken over by the Minnesota-based Grand Casinos firm. Locals dubbed the...