Word: sarcasm
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...real answer to the mystery of Cobain’s appeal is that beneath the flannel shirts, torn jeans, intermittent hygiene and biting sarcasm that came to define the grunge movement, there is an unspoken but powerful ideology that Cobain inherited from the likes of J.D. Salinger, William S. Burroughs, Dylan, Robert Johnson, Led Belly and even James Dean. Uniting all of these artists is the cult of the anti-hero, a philosophy which has resonated with generation after generation of disaffected youth. While every new proponent of this ideology has offered his own interpretation of its time old principles...
Clarke's dual personality makes no sense--unless you work in Washington. Aides passionately defend their boss one day, and after they resign, recall a very different story. Bob Kerrey, a 9/11 panel member and former Democratic Senator, says with a dose of sarcasm, "He's got everybody in positions of power trying to undermine him--by saying what? That when he was sent by his boss to say nice things about him, he did? Yeah, God, there's a crime. That's unusual in Washington." Clarke told the commission that when the White House asked...
...said Fonseca was deeply committed to the television station, described his personality as combining sarcasm with a more casual manner...
...been so kind to comics like Franken and showmen like Limbaugh. "What you have," says Publishers Weekly editor Steven Zeitchik, "is the marrying of the interest in political books with the culture of celebrity." Even the noncomedians in the bunch use the tropes of comedy and show biz: sarcasm, hyperbole and shock. Britney kissing Madonna, Coulter saying we should convert Muslims and kill their leaders--hey, it's all publicity...
...Sarajevan born to a Muslim mother and raised by a Serbian father, constitutes the traditional cosmopolitaness of that once most tolerant city. The mark of the Sarajevan, Neven says, is "a mixture of so many things: a love of art; a love of other people; and an amount of sarcasm and irony." Sacco, in counterpoint, accompanies this mythic passage with a full-page image of a dark, lifeless, abandoned space between blasted out buildings. Through Neven's personal history Sacco gives us the inside story of fighting against the Serbs during the siege. This job fell to loosely associated, legalized...