Word: causticity
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Fortunately, as the vituperative and caustic Milly, Elise Marks manages to salvage the show. Partly because of the nature of her role, but more importantly because of the professional sense of control she demonstrates. Marks turns Milly into a bigger-than-life character. Milly doesn't simply gripe, she bitches; she doesn't simply betray, she backstabs. Mark's frequent comical tantrums and pouting fits provide the play with the energy it so desperately needs...
...Administration to wonder whether he might wish to pick up Reagan's cue and offer some fresh arms control proposals of his own. But when Andropov finally did issue a statement last week (he has not appeared in public for more than a month), he used the most caustic language hurled at the U.S. by any Soviet leader since the waning cold war days of the 1960s. Andropov in effect not only said nyet to any imminent breakthrough in the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks in Europe but raised questions about future negotiations with Reagan on almost...
Such an account in other hands might be a pompous progression of rave reviews, gently tinted by hindsight. Not here; Houseman has an adequate ego, but he is caustic and funny, a wry observer of theatrical furies and hysterias, including his own. He admits, stout fellow, to taking on the direction of a hopeless Jane Fonda film (The Cool of the Day) simply because it is to be shot on location in Greece and he wants a vacation...
...Mousetrap is cadging tourists in its 31st year; Andrew Lloyd Webber still has three musicals running (Evita, Cats and Song and Dance), with a new show promised for the fall. Peter Ustinov has donned a peruke and a music-hall German accent to star in his own caustic comedy, Beethoven's Tenth. London's two major repertory companies are concentrating their energies on the Bard and other English classic playwrights. The Royal Shakespeare Company has mounted a characteristically bustling production of Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl, a feminist comedy from 1610, starring Helen Mirren...
...behind the Administration's often caustic rhetoric has been a relatively steady and moderate approach to Central America that is generally consistent with that taken by the Carter Administration. The State Department has worked to foster centrist democratic institutions in El Salvador and prodded the right-leaning government there into making some reforms. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders attempted to negotiate with Nicaragua an end to that regime's support for the Salvadoran rebels in return for U.S. aid and a pledge of nonintervention. His overtures were spurned by the Nicaraguans...