Word: satiricism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Businessman Barry Gottlieb, 34, is the scourge of preppiedom. First he designed a belly-up alligator that poked fun at the celebrated reptile on Izod Lacoste shirts. Its name: the Croc O' Shirt. Unamused, Izod Lacoste sued, and Gottlieb's Mad Dog Productions (1983 sales: $300,000) agreed...
It's impossible to appreciate the considerable amount of fine acting and fine direction in the Loeb's production of Love's Comedy unless you consider the massive obstacle the company saddled itself with at the start the play. As so often happens the ambition to tackle something obscure and...
November. In the author's satiric fantasy, the Black Sea peninsula has become an island off the Soviet mainland, something like capitalist Taiwan in relation to Communist China. In broad strokes Aksyonov contrasts the glittering hedonism of the islanders to the squalid austerity that prevails on the Soviet mainland...
The first of the new setbacks occurred last July when the Washington Public Power Supply System, or WPPSS (more widely known by the satiric sobriquet of "Whoops"), defaulted on $2.25 billion worth of bonds. The consortium of 23 electric companies, which had postponed or canceled construction of four of its...
The students who wore white lab coats, Walkman headsets, and sunglasses, waged their satiric battle for 13 hours until seven police officers threatened them with arrest.