Word: satiricism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truth & Truisms. The chief pleasure of Ben Franklin during these years was journalism, and it is Franklin the journalist who dominates this book. There are the Addisonian "Silence Dogood" letters with their gently satiric barbs at Harvard College, bits of local gossip, humorous anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay...
Hulot never defeats the age--except perhaps at the party and at the factory when he starts producing rubber sausages instead of rubber hose. Essentially, however, Tati attacks the modern world by showing what it's like at its ludicrous best. Mon Oncle is, in fact, a magnificent series of...
For those who like champagne, Sabrina is an excellent fun film. But, despite some dialogue spots and topnotch quasi-satiric characterizations in the supporting roles, it never does shape up as a "comedy of manners."
Died. Olaf Iversen, 57, German newspaperman and cartoonist who in 1954 revived the far-famed, grimly satiric magazine Simplicissimus, filled it with jibes at both East and West, and biting antimilitarist attacks in keeping with the anti-Prussian tradition of the original Simplicissimus (founded in 1896); in Munich.
Though the director has caught some visual excitement in Paris, his camera is mostly cold and apathetic. But the pic ture is blessed with urbane Gallic polish, some satiric set pieces, and another en gaging performance by Actor Gabin, who at 55 is still the No. 1 male box-office...