Word: caustically
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COMEDIANS. This funny and caustic play about six British workingmen striving to become stand-up comics marks an auspicious Broadway debut for Playwright Trevor Griffiths...
...Caustic Remarks. Yamani did not even bother to attend the final session in the conference hall. Instead, smiling and gracious, he invited TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn and a handful of other reporters to his tenth-floor suite. There, in equable tones, he delivered some surprisingly caustic remarks about his OPEC colleagues. How did he feel about breaking ranks? "Is it fair for all OPEC to get together to decide the price of Saudi crude? Is it fair for others to decide against our will?" What about OPEC arguments that a big oil hike is justified by inflation in the prices...
...that direction is, quite simply, escape." The two who follow Challenor's advice win. The boy (Jonathan Pryce) who goes into a brilliantly pantomimed rage against two effigies of the upper middle class loses. What he epitomizes is about as funny as death, but Pryce's caustic honesty and formidable skill in playing the role mark a Broadway debut that is electric with life...
...member of TIME'S Board of Economists, believes that guidelines distort the normal give-and-take functioning of the economy and may actually contribute to inflation by encouraging unions and companies to push wages and prices up to the guideline limits. Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman has been more caustic: "Guideposts and pleas for voluntary compliance are halfway houses whose only merit is that they can more readily be abandoned than legally imposed controls...
...where he had lived since 1964. Robsjohn-Gibbings moved to the U.S. from his native London in the '30s and set up shop on Manhattan's East Side. To re-create the "timeless" furniture of the classic period, he spent years studying ancient Grecian art. A sprightly, caustic author, he took on the antiques business and modern art in two bestselling books: Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale (1945) and Mona Lisa's Mustache...