Word: satiricism
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A browser on Wells can find everything from sandals to a potty screen for discreet cats ($8). Top jazzmen pull their gigs at The Plugged Nickel and, a few doors down, the hippest folksters fill up cavernous Mother Blues. At the end of the street is the famed Second City...
These happenings make no literary sense. They belong in a fashionably satiric exposition of meaninglessness, or a novel of foul disillusion of the kind written so joyously by college boys. Novelist Frame, a New Zealander who has written excellent novels (Owls Do Cry, Faces in the Water) in the past...
SQUARE IN THE EYE. While too many themes and techniques are crowded within its angle of vision, Eye is alive with a phantasmagoric sense of the present. Playwright Jack Gelber's latest satiric work tickles the ribs to stab the brain.
LUV. Three super-self-aware characters, dizzy from watching the way their little worlds turn, are given a satiric whirl by Playwright Murray Schisgal. Alan Arkin, Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach are the comic dervishes.
LUV. Three super-self-aware characters, dizzy from watching the way their little worlds turn, are given a satiric whirl by Playwright Murray Schisgal. Alan Arkin, Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach are the comic dervishes.