Word: satiricism
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* Last week, however, clairvoyance of a kind embarrassed the magazine. A satiric, fictional obit, prepared last month, reported that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was dead, but was being kept on in office by the Administration. The issue appeared on newsstands the very day Hoover died.
The change coincided with some of the roughest weather The New Yorker had ever encountered in the narrow, sometimes viciously choppy New York publishing pond. Back in 1965, New York had run Tom Wolfe's satiric attack on Shawn and his magazine. Though shallow and unfair, Wolfe's...
Although Train's speech implied a need for severe environmental regulatory measures, he said it was not necessary to accept "the dire hypotheses and methods underlying some of the more extreme predictions." A decidedly dire method of population control was advanced last week by the California social welfare board...
2001 WAS both a great achievement and, perhaps, a creatively suicidal move for Kubrick. Five years of technological horse-play is enough for many engineers, let alone film directors. Kubrick picked perhaps the only subject which could sustain such extended self-conscious artistry; for once the medium was the message...
But A Clockwork Orange makes it seem that Kubrick did get lost in the stars and has become a spaced-out religionist. Aside from his ludicrously simplistic emphasis on free will, the Bronx enfant terrible has lost his purely filmic bearings. The film shows the limits of crudeness. When it...