Word: satiristic
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...historian into a state of astonishment, if not amusement as well. For in less than two feet of print, Phillips presents to his readers all the elements that together comprise the hard right ideology in its most unadorned form. Phillips takes the conservative line to such extremes that no satirist, no matter how talented, could have produced a better parody of the cause. And no other tract comes to mind which more ruthlessly reveals the far right's Manichaean mindset as this...
Judith E. Stein, curator of the Grooms show that started its national tour two years ago at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, sets him up as a real satirist. With a "keen political sense," she claims in her catalog introduction, "Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honore Daumier, who were canny commentators on the human condition." Alas, the history of American art criticism suggests that you need only sketch a bum to get popped into the pot with Daumier, or a street crowd to be compared with Hogarth. The truth in this case...
...Viet Nam veteran are a navigational point in Broderick's looping narrative. His delivery owes something to Raymond Chandler, but rather than plot there is a proliferation of character and incident that builds to an ugly and violent mood. Dunne is a masterly setter of scenes and a merciless satirist, whether the target is an incontinent captain of industry or a criminal who has been packaged as a black revolutionary and needs an investment adviser: "The Merc and I were thinking more along the lines of Ornstein and Shay. Tax specialists . . . Estate planning. Top litigators. On the civil side...
Commentators call him bold, original, experimental, difficult, exciting and funny. He has been praised as a pioneering post-modernist, shouted down as a strident sexist, dismissed as a mere satirist, but he insists that he eludes all simple labels and rejects the legitimacy of categorization...
...plenty else to divert mind and, with the Currier House Dance Marathon, body. Last year's hugely successful Cultural Rhythms celebration returns to Sanders Theatre on Valentine's Day. The American Repertory Theatre has four productions, including works director by the Soviet director Yuri Lyubimov and by the Italian satirist Dario...