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A day’s drive from Whitehorse along the Klondike Highway, the old boomtown counts scarcely 1,000 inhabitants today, but the national parks system has done a nice tongue-in-cheek job of reconstructing the monuments of its heyday.
The F Word , the work of the scholar etymologist who is a resident editor in the dictionary department at Random House, proves to be a rare item indeed: a comprehensive, vastly eclectic, tongue-in-cheek serious treatment that has to be the first and last word on this world-class Word.
Its protagonist, a red-neck propane salesman, is deemed the heir to Roseanne and Archie Bunker . Another favorite is WB's tongue-in-cheek action series Buffy the Vampire Slayer , about a 15-year-old super-heroine: "A postfeminist parable on the challenge of balancing one's personal and work life" ( Time ).
Meanwhile, the commentariat is divided over Rudy Giuliani's tongue-in-cheek campaign trip to Arkansas (Page and McLaughlin's Mort Zuckerman approve, Hunt and McLaughlin's Huffington disapprove).
No, worse than awful: desperate" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Instead of going for the tongue-in-cheek, campy horror style so popular of late, director Jan De Bont ( Speed ) relies on old-fashioned things-that-go-bump-in-the-night scares.