Word: satirists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Mencken shared the fate of the successful satirist-to perish with his enemies-he had fun, while he could, slaying philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Mencken added to the gaiety of nations; he was a great man with a custard pie. Puritanism, the genteel tradition in fiction, Prohibition and even that "Bible of the booboisie and boost-erism"-the Saturday Evening Post -all became his targets...
Lebowitz has to be more specific. cut out a territory for himself somewhere between that of the dark humorist and the satirist. Willie's America is neither absurd nor gross. It is instead a wilderness, populated by fleshy people who act out vacuous models of existence that they are helpless to change...
...Fraser, a Scottish journalist, has struck upon a splendidly entertaining and relatively effortless way of replaying some of those military histories that have so proliferated in recent years, in this case a fine review of the Afghan Wars by British Barrister-Author Patrick Macrory called The Fierce Pawns. No satirist could have invented a scene as bizarre as Afghanistan in 1841, or one so suited to showing the military mind at its silliest...
...assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. is out of date), the show will consist of the same tape that CBS decided "would be considered irreverent and offensive by a large segment of our audience" during the week of the Eisenhower funeral. CBS specifically cited a parody sermonette by Religion Satirist David Steinberg (his final line: "Let's put Christ back into Christmas and 'ch' back into Chanukah"). But more likely the network objected to the show's running gags about John Pastore, the influential chairman and Mrs. Grundy of the Senate Communications Subcommittee. For example, Guest...
...that question. Orson Welles' old appraisal still holds: "Kubrick is a great director who has not yet made his great film." ∙ MIKE NICHOLS. Unlike Kubrick and Perm, Nichols arrived in Hollywood with formidable riches and reputation. As an entertainer he had been (with Elaine May) a cutting satirist. As a Broadway director he was known as a Midas: everything he directed became a hit. His first film, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, proved to be an erratic success notable for its mature dialogue and some puerile performances. By comparison, The Graduate was as mixed...