Word: stylishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absurdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...
...probably thought the most stylish clothes horse at Harvard belonged to the Porcellian Club and lived in Ellot House. You're wrong...
...this nothing of a King fell due the bill for 800 years of divine rights. With his fat and graceless neck, the least stylish of monarchs bore final witness to the death of the royal life style. He paid to make possible "the passage from one world to another"-from all that a monarchy assumes to all that a republic promises...
What makes the novel a little more than a flighty drag is Vidal's stylish and erudite sense of humor, his sharp pokes at intellectually provocative themes, and his spoofing of literary forms: the book, he says, is really "a send-up on the nouvelle roman." In that vein, he offers metaphor after metaphor based upon far-out late-show conceits ("I whispered like Phyllis Thaxter in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"). And he makes it Myra's thesis that the flicks of 1931 to 1945, if not the high point of Western culture, were certainly the most formative...
...well-publicized first appearance at the Chicago auto show late this month. Last week, however, at least one spy managed to foil Ford's counter-intelligence and photograph a Mark III during trial spins at the company's Dearborn test track. The picture shows a very stylish car indeed...