A reception will feature a book signing for "Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets" (Times Books), a new compilation of Mr. Cavett's blogs for The New York Times.
A monstrous man whose decaying career symbolically parallels the moribund state of the British Empire in the postwar era he uses and abuses everyone in his life, including his long-suffering family, and delivers pointed commentary on the state of society as he sees it.
Not anymore!" "The Revision," written by Jordan Harrison, is a gently pointed commentary on the legal no-man's land that same-sex marriages still occupy, as two men writing their own vows keep needing to revise the wording a little bit here and there.
To call "The Jazz Standards" a work of history, however, is to miss at least half the point; it is also a work of criticism, and Gioia is not afraid to offer pointed commentary.
Throughout the first two seasons of the British sci-fi anthology Black Mirror, creator Charlie Brooker has delivered pointed commentary on the technologically interconnected worlds of today and tomorrow, while nodding to the pop culture of the past.
As an actor, he also delivered pointed commentaries (usually written by Aaron Sorkin) on the short-lived NBC comedy-drama "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip".
I don't want to summarize the short and informative video, but a few points deserve commentary.
There's probably more wit and pointed social commentary in the average four-minute OutKast song than in the entirety of "Who's Your Caddy?" (extra points, though, for the title), a comedy starring OutKast's Big Boi, a k a Antwan Patton.
A good starting point for commentary, news and links is The Arabist, a website on Arab politics and culture established by freelance journalists in 2003.
Politicians and pundits raised questions and criticisms about the nation's political discourse, with many calling for calmer rhetoric while pointing out commentary they considered incendiary.
