Word: sardonicism
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With all their sardonic appeal, these statuettes also communicate the intellectualism, the reliance on abstract principles that underscores all of Degas' work. Cultivating his credentials as a budding talent at the Cafe Guerbois in the early days of his career, Degas kept company with many of the great impressionists. These...
His dancers, jockeys and sultry bathers sculpted over and over, ultimately sum up lives of hard work, frustration and all-too-frequent boredom. They suggest a sense of physical inadequacy to do justice to abstract ideals of ballet, horse-racing or even bourgeois femininity. Degas expressed this despair with regard...
Died. Quincy Howe, 76, author, editor and broadcaster whose Yankee twang was familiar to millions of CBS radio listeners during World War II; of cancer of the larynx; in Manhattan. After studying at Harvard and Cambridge, he worked for the Atlantic Monthly and Living Age magazines, later joined Simon & Schuster...
9. Los Olvidados. Bunuel made this film in exile in Mexico in 1950, on a shoestring 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...
THREEPENNY OPERA. A stylistically sardonic revival of the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill masterpiece.