Word: sardonicism
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It may seem odd, ironic and even unbelievable to anybody paying those pumped-up OPEC oil prices, but the Saudis feel they are the suckers of th world In their own sardonic way, they even joke about it. They say that they have piped out their black gold but the...
Dern has his detractors--people who think he perpetually overacts. He might, but that's what makes him so interesting. Most comfortable in "psycho" roles, Dern's bulging eyes and thin, strangled voice convey inner torment and rage better than any film star today. He frequently suggest a cross between...
Nick Lowe: Pure Pop for Now People (Columbia). Roundhouse riffs soldered onto diabolical lyrics by a sardonic British rocker.
Yet when collectors refused to touch his current work but scrambled for any pre-1920 De Chirico, he began to repeat his own early work. The market for De Chiricos became hopelessly snarled in disputes over authenticity, between fake De Chiricos painted by others, the copies he painted himself, and...
This could be worth resaying if Shaw or Stoppard were in the pulpit, but despite First Reader Plummer's acute rendering of Doctorow's wry, sardonic and satiric sermon, Drinks Before Dinner is a smudge pot of a drama that never blazes into revelation.