Word: satiricism
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In a satiric performance that drew constant laughter from the audience of about 50 students, Hughes poked fun of formal, stringent procedural codes at the Supreme Court, and expressed frustration that she was always pigeonholed as a "lesbian" performer.
But such pessimism represents a minority view among scientists, at least those with their eyes on the stars. "In this business, you have to remain optimistic," says radio astronomer Frank Drake, who kicked off the original Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in 1960 with his whimsically named Project Ozma (after...
Eggers, 29, is not the first person you'd expect to produce a touching memoir, perhaps the least cool thing a young editor could do. In the mid-'90s he edited the San Francisco magazine Might, known for satiric stunts like its hoax faking the demise of Eight Is Enough...
10 THE ONION The funniest site on the Internet theonion.com shows no sign of losing its satiric edge. Now it has conquered Old Media with the best seller Our Dumb Century. Web migration, it seems, is not a one-way ticket.
Finally, let us examine Buchanan as hick, a fruit-loop, a crazy, lunatic cave-dweller. Unfortunately, this sort of ridicule does not work as a social value defense strategy. It does not persuade people of the benefits of open markets, international engagement, immigration, racial and religious tolerance. Satiric witticisms amuse...