Word: sarcasm
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...STUCK with one daughter with half a mind; another one who's half a test tube; half a husband--a house half full of rabbit crap--and half a corpse! That's what I call a half-life, Matilda! Me and cobalt-60." In sarcasm and desperation, Beatrice, the heroine of Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, screams at her indrawn daughter. At first glance, I wanted to add that Ron Melrose's production at the Loeb Ex is, sequentially, half a show. But that's too easy, too pat. This production...
...airlines inevitably needed federal subsidies. Rickenbacker worked hard as a salesman for Eastern and for commercial aviation, and he pioneered Eastern's shuttle service between Boston, New York and Washington. He was a stern taskmaster as always, using a microphone at management meetings to heckle subordinates with withering sarcasm. "You're not managers," he would snap. "You're leeches...
...humor that makes The Women such a savory pleasure is as much of a rarity as the play. Mrs. Luce's lines border on the aphoristic, but they lack the pith and elegance of fine aphorisms. Her true forte is the sniper fire of sarcasm in which one character fells another in midstep or midsentence. Many of these lines fall to the busybody superbitch played by Alexis Smith, and she is a past mistress of the lethal riposte...
...problem. There were "other women" in the life of Economist Edward Sherwood Mead: "One of them had red hair, and one almost persuaded him to marry her." His voice was "loud and direct," the "imperative mode was very congenial to him," and when angry, he resorted to sarcasm and bitter parody. His judgments were "conservative" and "money-bound." He wanted Margaret to become a nurse because she was "not strong enough" to study for a college degree-though at the time she was carrying a heavy high school program, making the costumes for a school play and keeping house...
...date) to the present, the opera has remained Berg's most popular work all because of the initial spark provided by the suite. The public must have acted on faith to hail Wozzeck on the strength of the suite excerpts: they contain only a fraction of the tragedy and sarcasm that pervades the opera. The last suite movement in particular loses nearly all its power as a mere conclusion to so short a collection. It is as unbecoming as Handel's Halleleujah chorus shouted out with nothing before or after...