Word: satiricism
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It was all too trite and tragic. Another pop star found in a hotel room, dead of undetermined causes at an obscenely early age. In their blackest moods, the writers for NBC's original Saturday Night Live might have used these facts to make a satiric point about the...
Lewis's third reason for the overly protective reporting is not reason at all; it is a subtly satiric prodding of his fellow journalists' failure to evaluate Reagan's competence. Some reporters and editors have clammed up, he contends, precisely because they are so frightened by what they see in...
The result, Stuart Little, still sells and sells. White's collected Essays and collected Letters have lately appeared. So Poems & Sketches seems redundant at first. But for White watchers the book usefully calls attention to a pair of little-known personae: the Poet, a joyful writer of satiric occasional...
The wisest character in King Lear is the Fool, an observation few statesmen notice until the work of comic artists brings them down. In Masters of Caricature (Knopf; 240 pages; $25) the productions of savage and subtle comedians from William Hogarth to David Levine pass in review. Ministers of the...
Tom Eyen's cliched book and lyrics lack the wit and satiric bite that infused his Mary Hartman scripts. With lines like "Show business is a rough business, and it is a business," we feel we're watching a 1930s movie musical in technicolor with Bennett trying to do a...