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However, what is most striking about Anderson’s films is their underlying worldview. While the 1990s have been marked by a hip, detached postmodern sarcasm, Anderson shows compassion and understanding towards each of his characters and is in the end unapologetically sentimental and exuberant, refusing to hide behind today’s ever-present shield of irony. Though his films contain dark themes, they are ultimately hopeful and optimistic. Paul Thomas Anderson’s films are not for the timid, but those willing to experience them will be treated to a journey that is nearly impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Empathic Auteur | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...wouldn't quote it, I'd declaim it as mine, as if I was not a verse thief or poem-forgia. I also watched Nash on TV, where with Perelman, George S. Kaufman and Fred Allen he formed an informal group of sour-faced humorists who drawled cunning sarcasm So lacerating that anyone on the receiving end would collapse as if thrown down a Yellowstone National Park chasm. Without rising from behind the panel, they showed the world their rumps And defined the '50s wit as a fellow with a tone somewhere between gramps and grumps. Years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Ode to Ogden | 8/22/2002 | See Source »

...they missed several months of classes. "They knew the children were in camps but they don't want them back," says Ahmed. Then he laughs wearily and says caustically, "I am going to send them to a madrasah instead. They may as well become Islamic clerics." These days, steely sarcasm is just about the only defense around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Scared in India | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...miserable, nor are any of them truly content. Even in the end, when they have accomplished their goals, they cannot achieve happiness simply due to the fact that unhappiness surrounds them. Nonetheless, the melancholy reads sweetly; the characters push on and live their lives with good-humored cynicism and sarcasm...

Author: By Steven N. Jacobs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coming of Age in Birmingham, England | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...still mentally incapable of picking up on sarcasm): Oh. I want to be a lawyer...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: disjecta | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

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