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Sarah Sherman Enters the New Yorker Caption Contest

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (566+ words) I'll sign it. It's so good, I'm gonna sign it. Okay, classic used car salesman trying to pitch a dumpy Midwestern couple. We're doing body talk this morning. Trying to pitch 'em on a used car that's clearly a monster…...

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“No Other Choice” Eliminates the Competition with Style

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1048+ words) In Park Chan-wook's adaptation of Donald E. Westlake's crime novel, Lee Byung-hun plays a newly laid-off executive who launches his own campaign of mass termination. Judging by the cinema of the downsized, a subgenre as global in its reach as unemployment…...

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How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (375+ words) Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again. We taught them a lesson in 1918 And they've hardly bothered us since then. You don't need to know anything about the M.L.F. (and doubtless some people in the…...

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“South Park” Skewers a Satire-Proof President

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (327+ words) The anchors are visibly anxious. "Oh, shit," one says, as the news broadcast begins. "The small town of South Park, Colorado, is protesting against the President. The townspeople claim that the President'who, who is a great man, great guy, we…...