Word: causticity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend Gore Vidal, an acute and frequently caustic observer, is notably uncynical in his assessment of Newman: "He has a good character, and not many people do. I think he would rather not do anything wrong, whether on a moral or an artistic level. He is what you would call a man of conscience-not necessarily of judgment, but of conscience. I don't know any actors like that." Susan Newman considers her singular father and says with an innocent smile, "Who knows? None of us in the family has a handle on how Old Skinny Legs made...
...copycats seem to be turning to food products too. In Minneapolis, 14-year-old Marlon Barrow fell ill after drinking chocolate milk from a carton that proved, on analysis, to contain traces of sodium hydroxide, a caustic chemical. In Juno Beach, Fla., Policeman Harry Browning, 27, began vomiting within seconds of drinking Tropicana orange juice that could have been injected with insecticide. In the Detroit area, two razor blades and one nail were found in packages of Ball Park Franks within 24 hours last week...
...Milquetoast. But no one could fully compete with Kate Nelligan. She steals the evening and puts it in her purse. This Canadian-born actress makes a coruscating New York debut. Her moods are mercurial, and her stage presence is formidable. In this vehicle of trenchant thought, wry polemics and caustic wit, she is the powerful engine of internal combustion. -By T.E. Kalem
...President Robert O'Neil, however, argues that the colleges are "in part to blame." Says he: "Having diluted the requirements and expectations, they indicated that students could succeed in college with less rigorous preparation." Mark H. Curtis, president of the Association of American Colleges, is more caustic: "We might begin to define the educated person as one who can overcome the deficiencies in our educational system...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, the rabbi asserts rather subduedly. But starting this summer, he adds bitterly, a picture taken in Lebanon gave a thousand lies! And with that, he launches into a caustic denunciation of what he perceives as the media's extreme bias against Israel, listing numerous cases where journalists unhesitatingly bought the Arab line. Speaking without notes, this youngish, bespectacled man slips from attacking the press to a general tirade defending the invasion of Lebanon...