Word: spoofed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young in recent years have seemed so angry, serious, self-absorbed and just plain blue that one could scarcely guess that they had it in them to produce an uproariously funny spoof of the rock scene and its counterculture folk heroes. Nonetheless, National Lampoon staffers have done just that on the off-Broadway stage, and with wicked precision...
SUNDAY: Some Like It Hot. 1959 Billy Wilder spoof stars Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon. CH. 56, 6 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. Lawrence of Arabia. A stirring romantic intelligent and magnificent epic. David Lean's 1962 biography of T.E. Lawrence won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and vaulted Peter O'Toole to stardom. First time on television. CH. 5, 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Concluded Monday night...
...REAL INSPECTOR HOUND by Tom Stoppard. A spoof of mystery thrillers and drama critics that is cleverer than Sleuth...
...animated musical anthology has been culled from a half-century of his songs and patter. For Coward fanciers, a substantial cult, the only word for the evening is enchanting. Retrospectively, one can see that Coward the lyricist has been the slyly sophisticated offspring of W.S. Gilbert. Satirically, he could spoof the empire's topeeless Englishman who went out in the midday sun because he had a fond underlying assumption that that sun would never set. Temperamentally, Coward is a child of the '20s, that era of wonderfully liberating nonsense. He was one of the first philosophers of "doing...
...impossible world," one stanza begins, "but an Eden it cannot be." Auden is addressing the invisible, microscopic creatures who inhabit his body ("Yeasts, Bacteria, Viruses, Aerobic and Anaerobics") as men inhabit the world. Clinical knowledge of their doings helps him spin out a metaphysical conceit that manages to spoof mildly the anthropocentric folly of men in assuming that God thinks in human imagery, and at the same time modestly asserts that God exists...