Word: snipe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as Carter was telling 100 Congressmen at a White House buffet dinner last week that the idea of a stiff gasoline tax "is looking better and better," legislators were beginning to snipe at the idea. Said powerful Democratic Congressman Charles Vanik of Ohio: "Are you crazy? Fifty cents is out of the ballpark...
Necessarily, such a self-conscious form as punk will involve parody; as for the doomed Adrian Leverkuhn of Mann's Doctor Faustus, everything is a parody, of previous forms or even of itself. Creation of the new means the "deconstruction" of the old, and a sardonic snipe at other contemporary musical forms. The Pistols start parodying right off on side two with a symphonic version of "God Save the Queen," as much a parody of themselves as of art rock. A bizarre disco medley of "Anarchy in the U. K.," "God Save the Queen," "Pretty Vacant...
Early warning signals were flashing last week as Congress prepared to take up the Carter Administration's wide-ranging proposals for keeping the economy humming through the coming fiscal year. Congressional critics have begun to snipe at the President's tax program, even before they get their first formal briefing on the proposals this week from Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal. The package calls for $34 billion in tax cuts, reduced to $25 billion net by about $9 billion in new revenue-raising reforms. The legislators are delighted, even eager, to vote for tax reductions in this election year...
There is more cause to snipe at Brooks. Some of his material--especially a sequence involving Count Basie and his Orchestra--is remarkably similar to Woody Allen films; He seems gratuitously to use the sort of language that he could not use in 1968 and 1970 ("Provincial putz" and "Teutonic twat," to cite two examples); he has trouble ending scenes smoothly...
...Allen probably really means it when he says he believes only in sex and death. This undercuts some of his punch. The future sets up America's excesses, and Allen knocks them down with simple irreverence, a refusal to take them seriously. There's no room for the subtle snipe when the targets are set up like sitting ducks...