Word: satiricism
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"[D]uring the 25 years after 1945,Harvard's...General Education Program underwent analmost satiric distortion of its objectives,"Phyllis Keller writes in Getting at theCore.
The one real success of that group -- in fact, the most rousing and moving musical to reach the West End since Miss Saigon -- is Kiss of the Spider Woman, which retells the story of Manuel Puig's novel and the noted film. The new version comes from a North American...
And also more laughs. Stiller is capable of turning out a dead-on TV or movie parody, like his takeoff on Cape Fear, with a grownup Eddie Munster as the De Niro-esque psycho. But he rarely settles for the frisson of a good impersonation; his sketches usually give the...
Yet this year's political ads are surprisingly sober, businesslike and to the point. Gone, for the most part, are the warm, fuzzy "image ads" of campaigns past -- candidates frolicking with kids on the beach. There is little of the slick propagandizing of such ads as the famous anti-Goldwater...
The staging that arrived on Broadway last week mutes both of these satiric elements. The Rivetti brothers, as played by Jake Weber, in no way call to mind the U.S. style of mafiosi. And in the pivotal role of Jack, Brian Murray is a tower of Jell-O, reeking of...