Word: satiricism
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The real aliens of the book are the Owners, cut off from themselves. Yet hope glimmers. Hooper's voyeuristic passion is transformed when he brings his nymphet back from the O-Zone and she proves intelligent and sensitive. Moura gets to unmask her stud, thereby changing loneliness into at least...
The handful of men and women who have succeeded for more than a few seasons in the total-risk business of high fashion are a caste apart. Surely the most richly rewarded artisans in the world, they are natural celebrities and dictators of taste and fads. Rare indeed is the...
Sidestepping the familiar monuments of Paris, Kertesz sought candid bits of street life, preferably from a high vantage point, where he could inspect the world without engaging it. He had a geometer's orientation: in many of his best shots, people are distant figures, elegantly distributed among the grids and...
While this gambit refreshes one basic convention, Fletch hews very closely to another. As Philip Marlowe and his heirs have delighted in showing us for the past half-century or so, corruption, especially in the greater Los Angeles area, knows no class distinctions. Start working on what looks like a...
As Is deals with politics more obliquely. Where Kramer screams in outrage at the madness of promiscuity, Hoffman laughs at the self-delusion and hypocrisy of it. His play, told in montage style, juxtaposes reveries by the ingratiating central couple--for example, about the pleasures of "nondirective, noncommitted, nonauthoritarian" sex...