Word: causticity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...
...rich and randy bachelor's dalliances with Katharine Hepburn (played by Cate Blanchett ), Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale) and Harlow (Gwen Stefani of the band No Doubt). The film teems with other Hollywood potentates, from MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer to supercensor Joseph Breen, and promises to be a loving, caustic tribute to a town whose glittering streets can be every bit as mean as those in Scorsese's Little Italy. And unlike the director's Gangs of New York, it won't take 32 years to finish. We can hope to see it late next year...
...cast) seem to be reveling in the worst of the U.S. In the current hit revival of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria leave all their charm at passport control as they add an extra layer of bile to Mamet's caustic portrait of the battle of the sexes in the Midwestern heartland...