Word: causticity
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APPOINTED. JOHN BOLTON, 56, controversial nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; by George W. Bush, during Congress's August recess, the timing of which allowed the President to install the caustic critic of the U.N. without congressional approval; in Washington. Democrats had blocked a confirmation vote for months amid allegations that the former State Department official had manipulated intelligence to suit his ideology, bullied subordinates and tried to reassign those who disagreed with him. Bush said the post was "too important to leave vacant any longer...
Today's newspaper is an odd mix of "fair" news, bland editorials and strong views of licensed polemicists. Fairness is not required of the polemicists; it would dull their act. These merchants of anger and scorn range from Mary McGrory's liberalism to the caustic contentiousness of William Buckley, George Will, James Kilpatrick and William Safire (those on the right now have the momentum, the self-assurance and the numbers...
Summers quickly became a frequent whipping post for right-leaning writers like the Wall Street Journal’s Paul A. Gigot, who was perhaps Summers’ most caustic critic. While his columns mostly blasted Summers’ policy stances, Gigot also skewered Summers for his perceived arrogance. “Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to chastity,” Gigot wrote...
...play In the Company of Men to the big screen. In 1997, the film, which has two guys (one of them Eckhart) seduce and then dump a deaf co-worker just for the sport of it, won him the Filmmakers Trophy at Sundance. LaBute was hailed as a caustic king, and lambasted as a woman-hater. "It's all just name calling," he says. "The premise that these guys work on - let's hurt a woman - O.K., that was misogynistic. But to say these guys were just misogynistic was very limiting. Don't stop there. At least give me misanthropic...
...DIED. EZER WEIZMAN, 80, pragmatic, influential former Israeli President; after a bout of pneumonia; in Caesarea, Israel. Wry, caustic and often chauvinistic?he once responded to a young woman wanting to be a combat pilot by asking, "Have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"?he guided the Israeli air force, a unit he built and commanded from 1958 to 1966, to its rapid, preemptive victory in the six-day Arab-Israeli war. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hardliners and, through his rapport with then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, helped cement that country...