Word: satiricism
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When we take outlying relatives on a Battery Park walk, we stop in the small park at the north holding The Real World, Tom Otterness? playfully satiric sculpture garden. The witty images - a fat cat borne on a huge coin by oppressed little men, the teetering Babel of a miniature...
Originally created for a skit during the 1996 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards, the character of male supermodel extraordinaire Derek Zoolander is the brainchild of actor Ben Stiller, who also co-wrote and directed the film. The plot revolves around the premise that male models have been behind every major political assassination...
What followed this period of critical and popular acclaim, however, was a quarter century in which Southern published a scant few articles and short stories, and one eloquent, compact novel that sank without a trace. During his "boom period" his screen credits included milestones like "Strangelove" and "Easy Rider," contributions...
DIED. FRANCIS YOHANNAN, 79, World War II bombardier and inspiration for the antihero Captain Yossarian in Joseph Heller's satiric novel Catch-22; in Spokane, Wash. Yohannan, who served with Heller in Corsica, was not a rebel; in the Air Force, he earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze...
The festival also included three sold-out performances in the Adams Pool Theater of Streetpeople, a satiric comedy about life on the streets, written and directed by black playwright and actor Ben Ateku, founder of a Weymouth-based theater company.