Word: sardonicism
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That sardonic explanation is as sound as any for the explosion of optimism that sent the long depressed stock market kiting more than 55 points in six trading days through last Thursday. The wild rally that started April 13 hit a peak of frenzy at the start of last week...
The Exotic Bird series, in preparation by 1975, pushed further in that direction. The odd titles, which sound like surrealist whimsy- Mysterious bird of Ulieta, or, in a sardonic little pun, Steller 's albatross- were birds' names picked from an ornithological textbook. The paintings court vulgarity every inch...
Four weeks ago, an incredible half of the Top Ten hits belonged to the Bee Gees. No one has crowded so much competition off the charts since the Beatles, who once had five records in the Top Ten, but, as Robin Gibb hastens to point out, "they hadn't...
Excitable Boy is the title of Zevon's new record, his second in as many years. It continues further along into the neon netherworld explored in his first major album. Zevon sings songs of madness and delight, all about spies and mercenaries, traitors and lost lovers, spooks, werewolves and...
Los Olvidados. Bunuel made this film in exile in Mexico in 1950, on a shoe-string budget after more than ten years of enforced retirement from making movies. Dealing with street gangs in Mexico City, Bunuel displays here the same sardonic sensibility (combining psychoanalytic and sociological perspectives) which distinguishes the...