Word: acridity
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However, no amount of cosmetics camouflaged breakdowns of the city's essential services. Nor could paint and rhetoric mollify the acrid atmosphere of a city mobilized for combat...
...first casualty is dignity; the sec ond, humanity; the last, life itself. In 1890, out of the remembered pangs of his own despairing struggle with dep rivation, Norwegian Nobel Prizewin ner Knut Hamsun wrote an acrid au tobiographical novel. Two generations later, Scandinavia's moviemakers have finally caught up with Hunger-and surpassed...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. John Osborne's unsparing portrait of a 39-year-old London solicitor who realizes abruptly that his life is "irredeemably mediocre" makes an impressive transition to the screen, with Actor Nicol Williamson giving acrid life to the aloes of Osborne's lines...
There are a few reflections of the acrid, desolate quality in Cheever's original-notably when Merrill is maligned by a series of well-cast bit actors playing the tradespeople and servants he once abused. But, like its main character, the project at bottom is a parody of its essential self. "When you see The Swimmer, will you talk about yourself?" ask the ads. The chances are that the viewer will talk to himself during the long, embellished stretches that, sadly, make up most of the film...
...comment that Amer ica was born in "black revulsion." Black with wrath, Endecott orders Merry Mount burned to the ground and the Indians massacred. The historical moment is a century and a half before the American Revolution, but as the first shots are fired, and puffs of acrid smoke drift across the stage, the playgoer sniffs the unmistakable odor of revolt...