Word: satiristic
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...recites “Casablanca” and German poetry, and boasts an impressive and oft-quoted literary collection; she peppers the text with nods to real historical heroes (Winston Churchill) and imagined ones (“the late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist and social observer”). Several hand-drawn visual aids—the astute observations of our protagonist—are scattered throughout the text. A final exam is included for the detail-oriented and/or competitive reader...
...comments implying that terrorists are brave helped prompt the cancellation of his ABC talk show, Politically Incorrect. Now Bill Maher, 50, delivers his piquant comedy on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher, which premiered last week and streams on Amazon.com The satirist talked with TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about his potential as a political candidate, the network news and what his parents taught him about...
...Arts First is vital to [Harvard] because it highlights just how significant the arts are to so many undergraduates, regardless of their concentration.”One of the weekend’s main attractions was the 2006 Harvard Arts Medal ceremony, where the former-choir-boy-turned-savage-satirist Christopher F. Durang ’71 was honored with the prize. Following the ceremony, John Lithgow ’67, who was last year’s commencement speaker and founded the Arts First program, led a conversation with Durang in front of a sold out audience...
Like his idol, Hodgman, 34, has forged a career as an urbane literary figure and satirist of the urbanely literate. A Yale grad and former book agent, he has had a short story (edited by Plimpton) published in the Paris Review and writes nonfiction for the New York Times Magazine. But listen to the commentaries he gives as a resident expert on The Daily Show and you'll discover that one of the deadliest potential consequences of global warming is an unfrozen-caveman crime wave. Crack the spine of his faux atlas, The Areas of My Expertise...
...with a reading list that ranges from student blogs to the Congressional Record. And in her graduate-level class on obscenity, media-studies professor Laura Kipnis of Northwestern University examines how publications like Hustler can define class stratification in the U.S.--by discussing the work of the 16th century satirist Franois Rabelais as well as skin magazines...