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DiPietro said that while the book was written in the early 1920s, it was prescient in how it satirized politics and populism.

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon has long been seen as a quirky state whose main city was satirized in a TV comedy, where rugged country folk and urban hipsters could get along and political differences could be settled over a pint or two of craft beer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky saw the behavior of Russia's useless liberal class, which he satirized and excoriated at the end of the 19th century, as presaging a period of blood and terror.

Published from 1986 to 1987, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' original comic books satirized superhero tropes and tapped into real-world concerns (namely, the Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and U.S.) with their narrative.

The album was studded with gems, from the toe-tapping “Nobody Home,” on which he satirized Donald Trump (among other things), the old-timey “Change Your Mind,” and inventive covers of tunes by Chuck Berry and the Beatles.

A seven-minute video was posted on Sunday to the paid social networking website minds.com by a user called BarabooAryans, which used anti-Semitic references and satirized the controversial photo, the Baraboo New Republic Wednesday.

But the moments of humor—a good-natured but annoying friend, a satirized art world, and the narrator’s incongruous obsession with Whoopi Goldberg—make it go down easier.

Frank Zappa satirized the line in the song "Be in My Video", noting as well "atomic light".

He also satirized student political groups.

He wrote to Mann in 1785 that "as there are continually allusions to parliamentary speeches and events, they are often obscure to me till I get them explained; and besides, I do not know several of the satirized heroes even by sight".

In fact, Friz Freleng satirized this phenomenon when he directed You Ought To Be in Pictures (1940).

In its article "Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play In Time, Place Shakespeare Intended," the online satirical news site The Onion satirized the contemporary fashion of altering the play's setting.

In later Greek literature the doctrine appears from time to time; it is mentioned in a fragment of Menander (the Inspired Woman) and satirized by Lucian (Gallus 18 seq.).

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht 's The Seven Deadly Sins This work satirized capitalism and its painful abuses as its central character, the victim of a split personality, travels to seven different cities in search of money for her family.

Later, the high-flown values of chivalric romance were heavily satirized in Cervantes's Don Quixote, which portrayed the charmingly idealistic protagonist as a lovable but hopelessly delusional imbecile.

Popular culture * Comedian Lily Tomlin frequently satirized the telephone industry (and the country's then-dominant Bell System in particular) with a skit playing the telephone operator Ernestine.

Saturday Night Live writer and occasional performer Al Franken satirized Silverman in a sketch on the program titled "Limo for a Lame-O".

Several cartoons appearing in The New Yorker have satirized this.

The Roman poet Juvenal satirized superficial politicians and the public as caring only for "panem et circenses" ( bread and circuses ).

These views would be subtly satirized by Stella Gibbons in Cold Comfort Farm (1932) citation and much later by Margaret Atwood in The Blind Assassin (2000).