Word: sardonicism
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"Step right up . . . if you dare!" reads the blurb on the garishly illustrated cover. "See the werewolf turn into a real flesh-and-blood woman-right before your very eyes." This pitchman's approach, aimed at newsstand buyers of books on the occult, is misleading, for the product, a...
On the other hand, Jason Miller's That Championship Season--at the Colonial Theater in Boston--is certainly worth seeing. When I saw it in New York a few years back, I kept thinking about this basketball star in my high school who disappeared for awhile after finally o.d.ing midway...
When the Rolling Stones last stormed the U.S. in 1972, essayists checked out the rocking and stomping and evoked Nuremberg, the Apocalypse, ancient Rome, the coming of a new decadence, or any second-degree calamity that seemed especially pressing that week. The Stones rolled along with it all in typical...
In a typical reaction, the Melbourne Herald said: "All together now, wince." Annoyed by the criticism, a spokesman for the Prime Minister stiffly replied that it was the tune that counted and the words hardly mattered. But they clearly do matter to many Australians, and the choice of the new...
BUTLEY Directed by HAROLD PINTER Screenplay by SIMON GRAY Ben Butley, who teaches English literature at a London university, is generally befogged and intermittently besieged. An arch ex-wife seeks him out with the news that she plans to remarry. Students descend on him for tutorials, inundate him with papers...