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Stately, imperious Professor Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) mesmerizes and scares his students with caustic oratorical wit. Wondering aloud why two students have been absent from his class, he asks sarcastically, "Are they spooks?" He means ghosts. But the students are African American, the faculty is spineless and Coleman is soon reprimanded for uttering, however guilelessly, a racial slur. This comes as a shock to Silk, who identifies himself as the son of a Jewish saloonkeeper. Funny, you may think, Anthony Hopkins doesn't look Jewish...
Singer-songwriter Holly Golightly sets out on her own after touring with The White Stripes to perform her bluesy garage rock here in Boston. Ko and the Knockouts is a garage-rock trio from Detroit, led by the uniquely mesmerizing Ko Shih. Dame Fate is a darker, more caustic rock quartet from Washington, D.C. 9 p.m. $9. The Middle East, 472 Mass...
Oddly, Brooks and Krauthammer offer nearly opposite diagnoses of today's caustic tone. Krauthammer says liberals are angry because Bush has turned out to be a more ideological and more effective President than they expected. The anger, in other words, is over substance. Brooks, by contrast, complains that earlier disputes over cultural values and ideology have molted their substance and turned into rival but trivial assessments of the President as a person...
...work in which a reporter helps a New York City fire captain compose eulogies for his dead comrades. Next came irony--plays that focused mostly on the persistence of personal dramas in the face of this great big one. Exhibit A was Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat, a caustic drama about a married man who is late for work at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 because he's visiting his mistress--and then contemplates using the tragedy to disappear with her and finally leave his wife...
...Dunster House’s splendid production of Lenny brings back the caustic comedian to those of us who have heard we should admire him, but don’t know...