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Frances Ann Lebowitz (/ ˈ l iː b ə w ɪ t s /; [1] born October 27, 1950) is an American author, [2] public speaker, [3] [4] and actor. [5] She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese ...
According to Lebowitz, the title is a line she'd shout at people when trying to get them to move from the middle of a packed sidewalk. After the COVID-19 pandemic started, she noted, "now people think it has some more lyrical, metaphorical meaning." [1] The chapters are loosely organized around topics like money, athletics, transportation, and ...
Sardonicism is a defining characteristic of public speaker Fran Lebowitz's works and appearances. To be sardonic is to be disdainfully or cynically humorous, or scornfully mocking . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A form of wit or humour, being sardonic often involves expressing an uncomfortable truth in a clever and not necessarily malicious way, often with a ...
President-elect Donald Trump refused to wish federal death-row inmates granted clemency by President Biden a merry Christmas on Wednesday – telling them to “go to Hell.” “[T]o the 37 most ...
I wonder if he means Mike Huckabee, who has taken the lead in imagining a literal Trump-or-death scenario. Huckabee, a former governor and former unsuccessful presidential candidate himself, laid ...
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) denounced former President Trump for his recent comments branding her a “war hawk” and using language akin to a death threat, equating the rhetoric to that of a ...
The Fran Lebowitz Reader is a 1994 collection of comedic essays by writer Fran Lebowitz. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book compiles Lebowitz's two previous essay collections, Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981).
The election ushered in an unchecked era of presidential power brought on by a spineless U.S. Supreme Court that ruled Donald Trump can do whatever he likes to whomever he wants, so long as he ...