Word: satiricism
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Instead of doing this, the filmmakers have contented themselves with a series of unnatural color effects, that are clearly derived from the color sequences of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, Part 2, but lack his incisive organization and satiric overtones.
Philosophical Conundrum. For those who came in late, it should be explained that The Music of Time is narrated by Nick Jenkins, who, like Powell, is of Welsh origin, with family connections with Army and "County," went to Eton and Oxford, and is currently engaged in literary criticism. Previous installments...
The picture tells two stories at once, playing one against the other for satiric effect. Two women, a middle-aging fashion editor (Eva Dahlbeck) and her young photographers' model (Harriet Andersson), go to Gothenburg, a city in southwest Sweden, on a story assignment. First day in town, the editor...
At novel's start, he is nervous because he has just turned apostate to that religion by marrying a teen-age French girl. Poor Cecil seems not to realize that his wife is socially handicapped by a hint of Arab ancestry and an arty kid brother. The plot turns...
Truth & Truisms. The chief pleasure of Ben Franklin during these years was journalism, and it is Franklin the journalist who dominates this book. There are the Addisonian "Silence Dogood" letters with their gently satiric barbs at Harvard College, bits of local gossip, humorous anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay...