Word: causticity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheerleaders kept plugging, ignoring the caustic jibes of the band. But the Band would not be still. They yelled...
Kitchen hallucinates, sometimes he recognizes people, sometimes not, or pretends not. He is old and ill, mere months away from death, yet he is imperious in manner and caustic of tongue. Sometimes, Kitchen grasps the nettle of truth with blazing lucidity; at other times, he stumbles through a fog bank of displaced memories. The people around him, his daughter Mathilda (Sheila Ballantine), his wealthy son-in-law Benson (Gerald Flood), who grudgingly houses him, his watchdog companion Bristol (Edward Judd), whom Kitchen believes to be a So viet spy, and his granddaughter Gloria (Marty Cruickshank) are not full-fleshed characters...
...caustic reference was to Marshall D. Shulman, considered a moderate on Soviet issues while serving in the Carter administration as a special adviser to the secretary of state on Soviet affairs, one position Pipes is frequently mentioned...
...Midwest and Northeast. But in the 1980 campaign his appeal seems to be based at least equally on his personal integrity and low-key style. An easy-going politician who is respected by liberals and neo-conservatives alike, Mondale has to a degree counterbalanced Carter's aloof and sometimes caustic personality. As one politician noted, "Mondale simply has no negative constituency." And in an election where many of the ballots cast will be negative votes, this is seen as an important attribute...
Buchwald and tape recorder were "on" a week ago, when he kept a Kennedy School Forum audience chuckling for an hour by casting caustic, comedic comments at some of his favorite targets--the presidential candidates...