Word: sardonicism
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Then there is the man himself. If his clothes are sexy, so is he -- dark and sardonic, with a wicked smile, an outrageous wink and a laughing manner. "He looks like Brando; he is pantheroid, catlike," says Anne Hollander, author of the scholarly Seeing Through Clothes. "He is sexy in...
And so, in the final month before the 1988 voting actually begins, Bush has clearly become the dominant -- indeed, virtually the only -- issue of the Republican campaign. That is fine with Dole, who wisecracked his way through the debate and tried to cement his image as a just-folks neighbor...
Robert Kennedy had come into the presidential race in a sheepish and vaguely ignominious fashion, piggybacking on Eugene McCarthy's courage. McCarthy, the sardonic Minnesota Senator who wrote poetry and loved to work the contrarian vein, challenged L.B.J. as far back as November 1967. The McCarthy campaign, which seemed a...
Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, the Yippies' brilliant impresarios, compiled a ridiculous mock agenda that the authorities took in earnest: the Yippies threatened to put LSD into the city's water supplies, to drug the delegates' food, to get "hyperpotent" male Yippies to seduce the delegates' wives, to paint cars...
Margaret Thatcher' s Britain makes a rich subject for Margaret Drabble' s tenth novel. -- A sardonic memoir of 40 years at the U. N.