It reprises parts of Mr. Armleder's solo exhibitions from the 1980s, which took place at the John Gibson Gallery at Broadway and Prince Street, in SoHo, and might even be taken as a clever riposte to the neighborhood's current glut of high-end design stores.
Given his unceremonious dumping from his role as presenter of BBC coverage after three decades, Alan Titchmarsh has provided a clever riposte to those who sidelined him by creating a garden that garnered perhaps more mainstream media attention than any other.
Chingo Bling The Houston rapper Chingo Bling's career has been full of clever ripostes and unexpected turns, from his rhymes about the immigrant experience, to his tamale business, to his Weird Al Yankovic-style reworkings of popular songs.
My morning laugh on March 20 came courtesy of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's op-ed, "Familiar foes: Ignorance and hate," rather than the clever ripostes in "Mike du Jour" and "Baldo". The president of Turkey has jailed tens of thousands of political opponents, intellectuals, reporters, lawyers, business owners — anyone who might possibly even consider speaking out against his regime one day.
Photography's icons will withstand clever jabs like these, but the solemn pronouncements of photographic history might quaver a bit before such apt ripostes.
For anyone who doubted whether a woman could have carefully-coiffed hair and also be really clever and funny, Sharon Horgan has long been the riposte.
I Love Dick is a joyful riposte to all those stories in which clever women fall victim to the pressures of convention – from The Yellow Wallpaper to The Bell Jar and beyond – and also to the countless books by men in which women are crushed by romantic encounters: from Madame Bovary to Anna Karenina to Laclos's epistolatory Les Liaisons Dangereuses and André Breton's autofiction, Nadja.
ILD is a joyful riposte to all those stories in which clever women fall victim to the pressures of convention – from The Yellow Wallpaper to The Bell Jar and beyond – and also to the countless books by men in which women are crushed by romantic encounters: from Madame Bovary to Anna Karenina to Laclos's epistolatory Les Liaisons Dangereuses and André Breton's autofiction, Nadja.
Around the eighteenth century, clever comebacks and witty replies became all the rage, and the right riposte became something that a gentleman was admired for wielding, especially when he was accused of not being a gentleman.
But as a result, partly, of the increasingly defiant attitudes of women like Ms. Liu and Ms. Wang toward a term that many still find terribly hurtful, a riposte to "leftover women" has been born — and it's a clever one.
Acceptation ou riposte syndicale ?
