Word: causticity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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TINA FEY: SNL's caustic-but-nice comic takes on Mean Girls...
Anyway, Harvard was so lame when you hosted the Game last year. How were we supposed to drown out the caustic serenity of your not-so-depressed town when your loco parenti took away the kegs? With all those cops, you are the real safety school...
...Yost Ice Arena, home to the Michigan Wolverines and some of the best fans in college hockey, the “SEE YA!” is followed with a caustic, nine-word litany that is hardly fit to print...
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...