Word: causticity
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While I may have enjoyed it more, I don’t think I would have been as good a sportswriter if I actually knew the athletes I wrote about. I’m one of those caustic fans, who—while in their heart they desperately want their teams to win—when watching a game spends as much time telling their favorite players how much they suck as cheering when they succeed. Being detached from the athletes here allowed me to bring that mentality to Harvard sports...
Lucinda falls in love with her new home at first sight, and if The Quality of Life Report (Viking; 309 pages), a comic, caustic first novel by essayist and National Public Radio regular Meghan Daum, were any less honest, her story could have ended on page 15. But Daum's bittersweet deconstruction of Lucinda's illusions reads like The Bridges of Madison County etched in acid. Lucinda acquires a boyfriend, an apathetic woodsman named Mason Clay, who--while he bears a passing resemblance to Sam Shepard and says "warsh" instead of "wash"--turns out to be both much more...
While Harvard students and graduates associated with the group say joining Opus Dei was the best thing they’ve ever done with their lives, others call it a dangerous trap, cult-like in its methods, threatening in its caustic interpretation of Catholicism...
...acknowledged his homosexuality. But neither did he try to suppress it, as some Hong Kong stars have done. He was too much the showman, the exhibitionist, in his way the truth teller. He played the pining gay opera star in Farewell My Concubine, then Tony Leung Chiu-wai's caustic lover in Happy Together. Both movies were worldwide hits and gave him a notoriety that didn't quite do him justice. He was gay, yes, but he was mainly other: a luscious rebuttal to Hong Kong cinema's stern or strutting machismo...
Taking an extremely caustic and poetic approach to portray the life of barhopping young professionals in his hometown, he experiments here with prose and narrative form to push the boundaries of what we call the “essay...