Word: sardonicism
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Hooray for Hollywood/ That phony super Coney Hollywood," lyricized Johnny Mercer 40 years ago in a sardonic paean to the legend: instant fame, endless sex and the money to pay for it all. Since then the illusion of celluloid glamour has turned into the tawdry reality of a Los Angeles...
Fun Generation. Ignored or mocked during the rebellious 1960s, the senior prom has returned to fashion, partly because of nostalgia, partly because of precocious hedonism and the delights of conspicuous consumption. Not since the 1950s has the prom phenomenon been so "in." The proms seem to reflect the mood of...
So said Lewis Thomas, the distinguished physician and writer (The Lives of a Cell), soon after he became president of Manhattan's famed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center four years ago. Last week his sardonic words rang truer still. After five years of exhaustive studies with mice, researchers at...
Grace Strasser-Mendana, slowly dying of cancer, tries, as the sardonic narrator of the book, to understand herself and the increasingly unintelligible world around her. She declares that she will be the witness in history to a California woman and by empirical evidence will piece together Charlotte Douglas's life...
Senator Lori Wilson, sponsor of the Florida ERA resolution, blamed defeat on the good old boy image in Southern life. The good old boy, she said, stubbornly fought against change, opposing to the last women's right to vote and black civil rights. As she spoke in the Florida...