Word: causticity
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True, and all the more reason that the caustic and readable Louis Auchincloss should be cherished as the last author who could write, not in parody, "Gridley and I did not become personal friends until my election to the Greenvale Country Club in 1934. I should admit here that election to this club was the social triumph of my life. I never could see why Pussy and the children found it stuffy...
...case in point is a chemical company known as Tianjin Bohai, which trades in Hong Kong. I heard about this one from Bill Kaye, who runs the Hong Kong- based Asian Hedge Fund for private clients. According to Kaye, before Tianjin Bohai went public, it produced caustic soda ash, a valuable commodity in China. As soon as the firm got cash, it started lending it to other companies. From what I could gather, Chinese companies maintain a close relationship with the state enterprises from which they came and sometimes can be pressured into making loans and even donations to their...
...tunes pairs rappers with jazz performers -- rapper Guru with Donald Byrd, the spoken-word group the Last Poets with saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, Digable Planets with guitarist Wah Wah Watson and trumpeter Lester Bowie. Age is coupled with youth, cool with anger, and the result is music with a caustic beauty...
Even as he flooded the television waves with caustic criticism of his opponent, Weld seemed to take the race in stride...
Finally, I should point out that this article, no matter how poorly written or how caustic, does not belong on the sports page. In the interests of a better newspaper, please organize the editorials onto the editorial page. --Stacy A. Friedman...