Word: causticity
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...their "fortune cookie romance" comes to an end very quickly after their honeymoon in Bermuda, where George had also taken his first wife. Back in New York, George only takes time out from gazing at pictures of his deceased spouse in his brownstone to wind up and deliver many caustic pitches to poor Jennie, who can't find the way to cope with his moodiness...
...only to listen to Moritat (Ballad of Mack the Knife). Datelined 1928, here is the authentic shiver of Nazi gangsterism stalking the streets of doom. All the great numbers follow - Alabama-Song, Surabaya Johnny, Bilbao Song, Ballad of the Pimp and the Whore. In all these songs, a caustic social vision is wedded to a winningly expansive lyricism. This Cabaret is a feast for Broadway...
...expecting the familiar recorder of a vanished culture, the cafe and boulevard life of the Belle Epoque, the lowlife of the cabarets, the well-known cast of characters-May Milton, La Goulue, Paul Sescau, Jane Avril. One leaves with an impression of precocious modernity, partly because Lautrec's caustic and tender view of the world speaks directly to our culture of narcissism. Lautrec's art was about watching; as Stuckey observes, each figure spins in its own solitude in the midst of the schedules of lust and sociability: "In Lautrec's paintings glances are only seldom acknowledged...
...Carter Administration's decision to sell 1.5 million bbl. of heating oil to Iran on an emergency basis drew some caustic criticism in the U.S., not only because of the coals-to-Newcastle nature of the transaction but because the U.S. itself is expected to be short of heating oil this winter. But the Administration, in defending the sale, pointed out that Iran needed the oil quickly because of sabotage on pipelines near the big Iranian refinery at Abadan. The White House also argued that the sale could have important advantages for the U.S. in paving a new relationship...
...West on records, but this is the first recording of the original score. Harsh, erotic and turbulent with Dostoevskian emotions, it is a tale of small-town adultery and murder, laced with cynicism about the police. Rostropovitch and the cast, including his wife Vishnevskaya, give a caustic, high-velocity performance...