Word: causticity
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...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...
...robust turn, they rush outside, roll up their sleeves and flop on a lawn or bench for a London broil. All that fair skin takes a ruthless incinerating; by day's end, the only color anyone's wearing on face and arms is pink. I guess, considering the caustic images of American statesmen and media figures in the shows I saw over there, my face should have been...
...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...
...kettledrums during a rendition of Mountain People. In the early days, the five members drove to festivals in their blue tank with built-in sound system, and their live shows routinely featured 40-foot inflatable bears and various other hirsute creatures. And it's that mix of comic and caustic that makes the Super Furries special. Since its first album, Fuzzy Logic, in 1996, the band has been delivering intelligent, often satirical and occasionally frank songs about global warming, rural life, mobile phones and hamsters. "We should have a quota of songs that reflect our name somehow," says lead singer...
Sports are different. With every virtuoso performance in athletics there is at least once loser—and often it is an athlete from Harvard. And for the caustic sports fans who have missed out and aren’t friends with the athletes—those who thus look at Harvard athletics in the same detached manner as they would pro sports—there’s always the tendency to let them know that they didn’t do so well...