Word: satiristic
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...SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. The saga of how an Australian family of intellectuals tests its illusions against a philistine society, told by a lively social satirist who may be her country's best woman novelist since Christina Stead...
...While Satirist Scarfe was at work, Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum and Music Writer Christopher Porterfield were working on their own construction of the Beatles. Porterfield, who once headed his own instrumental group at Yale ('58), recalls that his idols then were such as Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker. As part of his preparation for the cover story, he listened intently to some 40 Beatle and other pop-music albums. As much as he liked the music, Porterfield found the large dosage almost benumbing. "Every three or four albums," he admitted, "I had to listen to a little Mozart...
...case you weren't exactly sure, I the way they are arranged on the cover, left to right, is George, Ringo, Paul and John. This view of the Beatles is the work of Gerald Scarfe, 31, the British artist-cartoonist-satirist whose grotesque caricatures in the British press (TIME, July 15, 1966) have been the nemesis of the high, mighty and famous, from Lyndon Johnson to Queen Elizabeth. For TIME, Scarfe went beyond his usual two-dimensional pen and chose special weapons: papier-mâché, paste, wire, sticks and watercolors...
...HORRORS OF LOVE, by Jean Dutourd. Using an ill-fated May-to-December romance, Satirist Dutourd skillfully and venomously explores the French character...
...HORRORS OF LOVE, by Jean Dutourd. Using an ill-fated May-to-December romance as an excuse, Satirist Dutourd skillfully and venomously explores the French character...