Word: sardonicism
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The record sounds like sunshine and turns out to be a tonic rebuke to solid values and positive thinking. "Well, I've seen sex and I think it's okay" goes the unsolicited but unimpassioned testimonial in Creatures of Love, one of two songs on the album that are about...
"History occurs twice," Stefan Kanfer writes at the outset of The International Garage Sale, quoting Karl Marx, "the first time as tragedy, the second as farce." Some 200 pages later, many of them stingingly funny, Kanfer ends his novel invoking the same message. Yet the novel itself lies somewhere on...
There are three main reasons for this Orwellian simple-is-befuddling approach. One is that the present tax code is such a hideous snarl. By Treasury count, under the new plan, "more than 65 categories of preferential tax treatment would be eliminated or curtailed." Just describing what they are is...
For, finally, this wickedly complex movie is not to be taken literally. It is not an inside look at organized crime any more than it is a study of the joys and dangers of sexual obsession. It is a parable of generational conflict in Director Huston's most sardonic (or...
DIED. Selma Diamond, 64, raspy-voiced comic actress and comedy writer who played the world-weary, chain-smoking bailiff on TV's Night Court; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. Diamond was a top writer for Perry Como, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and a playfully sardonic TV talk-show...