Word: satiricism
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Our fiesty couple is soon thrust into the world of international espionage--naturally through the old device of being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The good-guy secret agents (led by the poker-faced Marcel Bozzuffi) promise to protect Renato and Albin from the bad-guy...
Disparaging every attempt in the last fifty years to write a serious novel, a novel of ideas, the attacks come strong and steady. Some are self-serving, such as Gore Vidal's assertion that to rejuvenate fiction a writer must be witty and satiric. Others are malevolent such as Alfred...
Giscard has acted adroitly to increase that control. Besides appointing close associates to head the broadcast networks, he has helped Political Ally Robert Hersant get government-facilitated loans to acquire control of three Parisian newspapers, France-Soir, Le Figaro and L 'Aurore. Their combined circulation of 1.06 million makes...
But if the playgoer approaches this satiric farce at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons Theater in a slightly carbonated frame of mind, he will find that the evening fizzes with pixilated laughter.
Even the titles of the publications bear an affinity to Dadaism. The 1910s and '20s saw the creation of Dead Serious, Dada and Cloudpump; in the 1970s and '80s we have Impulse, Slash, Damage and Fetish. The element of satiric humor remains: Dada's contents included, "Painting, Sculpture, Drawings...and...