Best known for his stand-up satire songs, Mr. Minchin delivers plenty of swipes at deserving targets, including parents who make their children their religion, in the opening number, "Miracle".
He knows how to educate, raise hackles and then release tension with a good laugh, at the expense of his always tempting, always deserving targets.
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Goodness knows that the authority makes for an easy, and often deserving, target.
The best number in the show, a Marlene Dietrich-like torch song sung by Mr. Feuer as Eva Braun, with the refrain, "Loving him is where I went wrong," works because it treats a deserving target with a kind of sympathy.
A bigoted zealot, a baby-killer, a true despot, Thaddeus is the emblem in the play of the lure of vengeance, an absolutely deserving target of retribution who, seen outside the historical context of the play, might easily be represented by a powerful espouser of any fanatical perspective.
This is an area that deserves targeted grant support.
Mob justice may have deserving targets but it is always crude and usually goes too far.
Studies have shown that state control over media can often divert outrage onto less significant or less deserving targets.
For the conservative of 1987, Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind" struck many deserving targets — rock music, sexual promiscuity, the sixties, Black Power, divorce, feminism.
