Word: causticity
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...that it's hard to imagine these characters played any other way. The performances exemplify abiding commitment to character--the principals come to Boston from either the Kennedy Center or New York staging of Marvin's Room. Carol Schultz plays a deeply complex Bessie. At once, timid and furiously caustic, forgiving and petty, she views her illness with both resignation and resistance. Tim Monison as Dr. Wally is a gleefully bumbling doctor straight out of vaudeville. Nance Williamson as Lee is a perfectly caffeinated, bleached blonde graduate from cosmetology school. Mary Diveny's Ruth, unfocused, distracted, nearly helpless, is compassionately...
...part of almost any gay adult's personal legacy. If not always richly detailed in the writing, the moments are staged by Marshall Mason with unusual power. As the younger Ned, John Cameron Mitchell is touching but seemingly too sweet and girlish to have ripened into the tough, caustic adult Ned. But perhaps this is Kramer's deepest point -- that the corrosive gap between boy and man was wrought by the unloving world around him. More than a play about AIDS and death, The Destiny of Me is a play about homosexuality and life. It is irate, not about dying...
...such a moment of despair, I came across a rather stimulating article in The New York Times. In its "Campaign 92" pages was a piece bemoaning the lack of caustic political humor in this year's campaign. It seems that the most telling political humor only establishes itself under authoritarian regimes: the weight of government peering over the shoulders of the citizens of communist states drives the etiolated spirit to renewal via satire. Satire's effectiveness is one nurtured in tiny Smoke-filled rooms, where combatants of wit can exchange furtive one-liners knowing that Big Brother has temporarily been...
Young's story is presented in the format of flashbacks about the most memorable episodes in his life. In its most basic form, Mr. Saturday Night chronicles the life and times of a comic whose caustic wit has cost him stardom. The film shows how Buddy has been his own worst enemy, ruining his chances for success and alienating those close...
...Margaret, Maryellen Rowlett is empathetic and at times delightfully caustic when analyzing the other. When she portrays her characters's anger, however, Rowlett's performance falls flat; "emphatic" gestures and a raised voice are insufficient to carry these scenes...