Word: sardonicism
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Of these, the most important literary event is Figaro. Horvath was 30 in 1931 when his sardonic Tales from the Vienna Woods won him Germany's Kleist Prize. But Hitler's rise to power aborted Horvath's career, and his reputation has | re-emerged only since the late 1960s. Figaro...
MARK LOOKED over at me from the driver's seat. A sly, sardonic grin spread slowly across his face. With all the sarcasm he could muster, he started singing right along with John Lennon: "Paperback writer, paperback writer, I want to be a paperback writer..."
The new magazine, Claritas, was conceived by Alexander B. Gove '87 as a sardonic commentary on day-to-day life at Harvard. Unlike most other Harvard publications, Claritas will open its pages to contributions from any undergraduate, Gove said.
Arena Stage has long been receptive to avant-garde European writers and directors. In rescuing Restoration from relative obscurity (the only previous U.S. production, in 1985, played five performances at the 99-seat Illusion Theater in Minneapolis), the company has proved especially shrewd. The show displays both the adaptability of...
At this point, the show plunges off into the badlands of promotion. It contains things one is glad to see--the antic, sardonic imagination of Sigmar Polke, for instance, which has been reprocessed by squads of younger artists from David Salle to Jiri Dokoupil; or the blunt, strong images of...