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Curiously, if you look at the wonderful anthology of parodies that Dwight Macdonald put together long ago, you will find a burlesque of sociologese by Daniel Bell, called "The Parameters of Social Movements: A Formal Paradigm," which was allegedly a revision of an earlier scheme titled "The Configurative Patterning of Social Movements."
The amazing thing about Dick (directed by Andrew Fleming from a script he wrote with Sheryl Longin) is that it manages to burlesque the Watergate mythos without trivializing it.
In Mexican social thought the role of relajo behavior is shown to be a criticism of the political corruption of the government, but also a burlesque of the divisions of the social classes.
Before long, the streets and alleys around the temple were filled with music halls, burlesque theaters, cabarets, gambling dens, and watering holes of every description.
Benny Hill, whose shows have often been seen (too often, some might be inclined to say) in the U.S., rarely resorts to rude language, focusing rather on what is viewed as a revival of old burlesque routines in which there is much rolling of the eyes, winking, and the sly aside to the audience, all of which add up to the rudeness being in the mind of the beholder.