Word: sham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plots and interrelationships ultimately amounts to a struggle of poor, generally powerless men and women to preserve what passes for dignity and self-respect--usually at each other's expense. Their problem, as Brecht shows it, is that they have no understanding of dignity beyond the sham that passes for gentility among a capitalist society's ruling class. They have a passion for outward virtue combined with an infinite corruptibility. They parody bourgeois family life, but are loyal only so far as self-protection permits. Peachum is forever misquoting scripture to defend arguments for fraud and betrayal. Tiger Brown...
...matter. The deadliest, most brilliant satire still works by desecration and flourishes in filth. Someone eventually rears up to illuminate the dark underside, reminding us, like Swift, that sham, corruption and violence lurk beneath the surface of our beliefs and institutions and, of course, that Caelia shits. For America in the late fifties and very early sixties there was Lenny Bruce...
...come on, Mr. Sidey [May 6], y'all been generalizing about us down here. As born, bred and proud Southerners, we disapprove of Richard Nixon's sham presidency as much as any Yankee in Massachusetts or New York City. Why, we could round up a pickup truck full of pro-impeachment folk without leaving the county...
Tired of the machinations of Charley Finely. Sick of Bob Short's ridiculous franchise hopping. Repulsed by a designated hitter rule that gives cripples Orlando "Cha Cha" Cepeda and Tony Bad Wheel Oliva a new lease at the plate. Then your only possible alternative to that sham of an American "League" is the pure baseball of senior circuit...
...real producers decided that just wouldn't sell. This very funny movie was the first film with Mostel and Wilder. Their most recent has Zero Mostel hilariously and violently turning into a rhinoceros. But he was so funny there that he helped turn Ionesco into a travesty and a sham. He's never quite so funny in The Producers, but Mel Brooks's film contains no pachyderms...