Word: satirists
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...presence that is the rarer (yet equally Francophone) “cerebral” ironist. The contrast is like that between mules and donkeys. The former are much like “You Oughta Know”-era Alanis Morrisette, in that they are more properly defined as social satirists than ironists proper. Their most raucous displays of irony are when they attend “The Wedding Date” high, just so that they can snicker loudly at Debra Messing or talk about boxed wine with a suppressed mirth so powerful that scientists have yet to fully understand...
...Antigone in New York. , Polish emigre Janusz Glowacki has carved a niche as the U.S. stage's foremost writer on the East European immigrant experience, and he may be the most incisive satirist as well. Washington's Arena Stage impeccably mounted this odd lark, derived from Greek myth, about two derelicts' attempt to bury a fallen comrade -- interspersed with caustic remarks about two soulless worlds: the KGB's Russia and Manhattan...
...before it turned to horror. Letizia Battaglia, who risked her life to photograph the Mafia in Sicily, is treated with no less respect than exemplary war photographer Robert Capa. Gideon Mendel, who has doggedly tracked aids around the world, has equal billing with Martin Parr, England's foremost photographic satirist of class and consumerism. In his wicked portrait of a couple seated in a restaurant, the romance of married life seems to belong in the barely remembered past. The book nonetheless reinforces certain clichés about the profession. Golden must know that war photographers aren't all selflessly heroic...
...warned: this is not the Altman of M * A * S * H and Nashville, the funky satirist with an ear for low-life Americana. It is the European Altman, who in Images and 3 Women and Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean threw sensitive women into the nightmare zone between past and present, reality and fantasy. In Fool for Love, he situates May's sad childhood literally next door to her fated present and sets Eddie's monologue memories colliding with the flashback images that accompany them. You can have some cerebral fun with this game...
...narrative holds its quota of surprises, but draws its force from the shrewd characterizations, which grant Dickensian life to what at first seem stock figures. Barnard, a closet satirist, is at his best when reviling his creations rather than cherishing them, and there are villains a plenty to hiss at in this oddly affecting tale...