Word: satiricism
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That much of it amounts to one joke-and not an especially good one. The real star of the show-in fact, its only excuse- is George Rose, who plays Lynn's magnificently swishy lodger Henry, a middle-aged queen mum supervising her diet and her life. The play...
A special joy is that this is Lester's first film since the wizardly but little-seen Bed Sitting Room, which played in the U.S. in 1969 for approximately the time it would take to soft-boil an egg. Lester made his reputation from his two gymnastic Beatles movies...
Ezra Pound changed English poetry by badgering it to speak in sharp images, in direct familiar tones. T.S. Eliot challenged it by showing that verse might use myth and nightmare to say something complex about 20th century society. Auden was a brilliant colonizer of lands they discovered; less remote but...
Pithy Style. Curtis, 44, has come a long way covering caviar and its consumers. She started her newspaper career as a women's reporter for the Columbus Citizen (now Citizen-Journal), and joined the Times in 1961, becoming women's news editor in 1965. She is known for...
A satiric thriller about presidential conniving and conspiracy in Washington? Two years ago, when Hail! to the Chief was made, no distributor would touch it; the movie seemed to fall somewhere between poor taste and treason. Now, post-Watergate, it has had no trouble finding a distributor; it seems to...