Word: satiricism
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Betty and Adolf, as they call each other on and off stage, have worked together since 1938, when they began performing with Judy Holliday at a then-obscure club in New York called the Village Vanguard. "It was very haphazard," Comden reminisced backstage last weekend. "We all thought of the...
A writer must know how to start a fight. A good writer must know how to finish one. Czechoslovakia's Milan Kundera is a good writer, but like so many other dissident artists in Communist countries, the fights he starts in his satiric novels and stories are lost battles...
Soll's second work, "Lunch Break," also uses the principle of juxtaposition. Images jumble together at such a fast pace that the eight performers are pushed almost to the point of becoming characters--yet the tempo is so quick that they never quite have time to become anyone. On one...
"Happily, too, your country will never look at itself quite so self-seriously, certainly not as self-righteously, thanks to your satiric insights into the foibles, and pretensions of both the notorious and the obscure," the citation added.
Judging from his performance as guest host of TV's irreverent, ploddingly skittish variety show, NBC's Saturday Night, Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen does not have much future as a comedian. The question some people were asking last week is what sort of future does he have...