Word: causticity
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...song Rockwell Church chose to kick off the night, for instance, finds the speaker reflecting on the mind games he and his girlfriend play when they fight: “It was a subtle implication / Supposed to thrill me to the core / You trade the caustic observation / For the burning metaphor . . . It’s strange the way we change into the things / We might become anyway...
...national team in the 1998 World Cup, Zidane, or Zizou, has been playing with champion Italian football team Juventus since 1996. The superstar midfielder will be replaced by Lazio's Czech favorite Pavel Nedved. DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, author and screenwriter; in Montreal. Among his many achievements, the caustic Canadian had been twice short-listed for the Booker Prize and appointed to the Order of Canada. See Eulogy. DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Her elegant life as the Chancellor's wife?she was also an accomplished cook and linguist?was afflicted...
...First full-length work, The Birthday Party, is produced in London and closes after four performances. Critics are caustic, apart from the Sunday Times' Harold Hobson, who hails Pinter as a brilliant new writer...
...similarly caustic debate arose during the council's May 6 meeting at which the council severed its ties with the much maligned Ivy Council...
...same effervescent guitar-coaxed glow. “Alien” lurches forth with snarling blues licks, sneering the same themes of social alienation and sexual obsession that shake the album. Though not included on the original release, its lyrics easily rank among the Moonlight’s most caustic: “And if I see you snooping ’round my farm / I’ll give you a mug of cocoa, then I’ll break your arm / And if I tortured you upon a rack / You wouldn’t say half what...