Word: skewering
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...those based on either "primitive" totems or natural forms: coral polyps, breasts, clusters of buds and palps. The totemic pieces cluster sociably together in crowds, tall and etiolated, often made up of worn chips and fragments of wood threaded on a central armature, like shashlik on a skewer, and then painted. Bourgeois likes repetition with small variations: some of her larger pieces, like Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972, are composed of hundreds of marble cylinders, their tops lopped and slanted at different angles, clustered on a platform. They give an impression of preconscious liveliness-nature on the march...
...people giving a party to pay his freelance photographers' fees in exchange for coverage in his column. The paper's recording-industry columnist, Dianne Bennett, a former Beverly Hills meter maid who is paid $ 100 or so a week, is known for using her Reporter platform to skewer her enemies, sometimes bending the facts to suit her case. Staffer Hank Grant routinely attributes items to "my studio spy Onda Lotalot" and "New York Spy Luce Lipp" in his daily column. He also wishes "happy birthday" in print to entertainment figures, as in the March 10 greeting to former...
...excellent popular historian (The Steel Bonnets) as well as a prolific screenwriter (The Three-and Four-Musketeers), is best known for his seven Flashman novels, the saga of a Falstaffian poltroon who for sheer cad-dishness has no equal in contemporary literature. Like the Flashman mock memoirs, which skewer the Victorian scene with such wealth of detail that many American reviewers at first thought them to be authentic historical documents, Mr. American teems with minutiae ranging from the price of the London & Northwestern train trip from Liverpool to London (just under $6, first class) to details of the Countess...
...Attilio?" "Where was the director?" "Does the cavalry return?" "Who-him?" Finally, Kael is accused of a tendency to wander, hogging space in the magazine until "other pieces, on which serious intermittent writers had worked for years, were being overwhelmed." Why did Adler go to such pains to skewer Kael? Some associates say she merely wants to uphold The New Yorker's usually high standards. Others cite personal differences with Kael. Adler is not talking...
...members of the Small Circle are not really involved in the larger events of the story; they are acted upon by them but are not really actors in them. Papering over this discontinuity gets the picture into trouble. There are witty, intelligent observations, throw-away lines actually, that skewer some of the nonsense of the '60s. They lead one to think that this movie perhaps started out to be something wiser than it is, that along the way the film makers fell prey to the desire to ingratiate themselves with a generation they might have better served simply...