I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do to... her what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You... see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities.... Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn bet...ween a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Indeed, there are no easy correlations between parental ideology, class or race and "successful" child development. Many children ...the world over have revealed a kind of toughness and plasticity that make the determined efforts of some parents to spare their children the slightest pain seem ironic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Postmodern agenda: the peep show is the art form; the voyeur is the protagonist; the goal is excitement from a safe distance; the ...alibi is that it's all ironic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »