Word: satiricism
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The small comfort she does find in life comes from Ted and Becky Standish, hosts of the Christian network's "World of Love." The show is the satiric crux of the book, but most of the televangelism satire falls flat, and besides, it has been done before (and better) in...
The maverick Marvin is the strongest satiric vehicle, and the true center of action. He learns to index irrational investment expectations, and with the prodding of a liberal-minded wife, he finds over-optimistic companies. He borrows stock in them and then sells it. And when the company fails, the...
Now, bootlegging facts in the diplomatic pouch of fiction, Sinyavsky demonstrates the range of his virtuosity and literary cunning by echoing some Russian masters: Gogol of the satiric Dead Souls, Dostoyevsky of the subversive Notes from Underground, Turgenev of the pastoral Fathers and Sons, Nabokov of the evocative Speak, Memory...
WARREN ZEVON: TRANSVERSE CITY (Virgin). The nastiest and least predictable of the California singer-songwriters opens hard with a dour, futuristic suite of three tunes inspired by cyberpunk sci-fi, then draws his usual fine satiric bead on a range of subjects from perestroika to malling.
Eric Bogosian follows his acclaimed performance of Sex. Drugs. Rock & Roll with more of the same this weekend as part of the American Repertory Theater's fall theater festival. Currently in residence at the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training. Bogosian is working to develop his new play. Suburbia, a...