Word: causticity
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While Tolstaya is a caustic chronicler of perpetual yearning and casual cruelty, she can also be wildly funny, capturing the lunatic humor that leavens these hardscrabble lives. Lyonechka, a rarely employed writer who has already thrown away one newspaper job by introducing an unwelcome sardonic note to the obituary column, lasts no longer at a women's magazine after he starts a recipe with the words "Let's be frank -- there ain't nothing...
Rose plays Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of history's most intriguing characters, enigmatically. At first, her caustic shell seems so impenetrable that the audience almost believes that she is happy, but gradually her misery becomes clear. The audience believes her when, in defeat, she begs, "Can't we love one another just a little? That's how peace begins." Yet, as soon as she sees a chance to gain the upper hand, she rallies to the battle, saying, "We haven't lost...
TELEVISION From Britain, a caustic look at Hollywood...
That habitat can be hostile. Hollywood has been buzzing for months over the caustic portrait that emerges in the British documentary, and some of the participants are kicking themselves for having cooperated. Two of them -- producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer -- were apparently so miffed that they succeeded in preventing the episode that features them from being aired...
...Democrats have always had patrons and participants of great wealth, but they were guided by a lot of folks off the streets and shop floors. Fifty years ago, the caustic, rumpled Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas would stomp through such gatherings reminding people that he rode the rods out of Yakima, Wash., to go to Columbia Law School in 1922. Twenty-five years ago, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey palmed his way around the stately chambers in the righteous sheen of polyester. And a labor leader like George Meany still had the hands of a plumber. If there...