Word: sardonicism
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The show is astutely structured to elicit some sympathy for Eva (Patti LuPone) and to present her as something of a scrappy feminist. It begins with her funeral and ends with her death. In flashback, she flees from her barren pampas birthplace to glamorous Buenos Aires, arriving as the amorous...
Price is not best known for the incendiary qualities of his music. His keyboard skills have been celebrated since his days as a cornerstone member of the Animals, one of the most vigorous of the Beatles-era British rock groups. His songs for Lindsay Anderson's mock epic of...
Not so long ago, however, Johansen seemed like a monster of another sort, a hobgoblin who fronted a band of seemingly demented demons called the New York Dolls. Now the Dolls seem like the respectable progenitors of punk. But back in 1973, when the group first formed and Johansen, only...
Approach #4. The Cultivated Superiority Approach. Prerequisite: before you arrive in Cambridge, compile a list of things that you have done or that your family owns that are sure to impress anybody. A subdivision of this is Intellectual One-Upmanship. If your new roommate has read all of Proust's...
Unfortunately, the play does not allow her to establish any defined relationship with Dr. Schon, her benefactor (David Reiffel). The scenes involving the two of them, with the exception of Lulu's declaration of love, lack any sense of tension or attraction. Here Reiffel might improve his otherwise effectively sardonic...