Word: acerbatingly
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...bachelor about town touring the troubled marriages of his old friends and sampling the dubious favors of swinging singles, Larry Kert is a delight, a marvelously expressive singer and actor. Jane Russell has replaced Elaine Stritch in a key role, and while Russell doesn't have the acerb singing voice of Stritch, neither did Stritch have the opulent good looks of Russell...
...Wellesley graduate with an acerb tongue and typewriter, Judy has been tough on Tricia in the past, once observing of her little-girl look: "A 24-year-old woman dressed like an ice cream cone can give even neatness and cleanliness a bad name...
...botany and humanity. Some of the marigolds are withered, some aberrant, and some blossom handsomely. So it is in the family. It is difficult to know where praise of Marigolds should begin or end, and how to contain it. Sada Thompson may already have stolen the Obie award. Her acerb slatternly mother, gobbling cigarettes and guzzling whisky, might simply have been a mutilating monster-except that every other word and gesture reveals the maimed woman inside. The daughter roles are charged with compassion by Levitt and Payton-Wright...
...might suppose that all of this should be entirely clear to any careful reader of the Court's decision," wrote Stewart in acerb conclusion. "Perhaps so, and perhaps, therefore, what I have said is quite unnecessary. But ten years of experience here have taught me that the most carefully written opinions are not always carefully read-even by those most directly concerned." Stewart's gibe may have seemed excessive to those who have read some of the court's "carefully written opinions," particularly when it is remembered that the Solicitor General, a former dean of the Harvard...
...World Treating You? by Roger Milner. With the rage and frustration of so many Samsons, British playwrights after Suez began bringing down England's temples of hypocrisy, pomposity, caste and class snobbery. Then anger turned to almost hysterical laughter: the acerb mocking tone one hears and the swinging London air one breathes in plays like Entertaining Mr. Sloane, A Severed Head, The Killing of Sister George, Eh?, and such Pinter one-acters as The Lover, A Slight Ache and The Collection. The latest comedy to rip the stuffing out of the stuffy is How's the World Treating...