Word: causticity
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...brains of the dynamic duo, Fonda proves her talent as a comedienne even after previous roles as a hooker, a neurotic, and an anti-war activist. She's at her most caustic when she tells Dick to beware of the placement of his gun in his pants, as he might "go off half-cocked." Segal is barely adequate as her fumbling but well-intentioned husband. Dick is the quintessential Segal role, so sometimes he appears to sleepwalk through his unchallenging part. After a while, he follows every line with the same crooked grin and hand gesture. And McMahon helps turn...
...covered with scientific-type scribbling and a picture of Glashow and Howard M. Georgi III, associate professor of Physics and frequent collaborator with Glashow. Georgi and Glashow face each other in the picture, bemused. A cartoon-type bubble pasted on the picture depicts them berating each other with the caustic phrase, "You dummy!" A sketch of Einstein and an enlarged photograph of a delicate white web of spirals on a black background decorate the fourth wall. Cross-country skis stand in the corner...
...Mobil, Standard Oil Co. of California, Texaco, Gulf, Royal Dutch Shell, and British Petroleum). In Blair's view, the companies actually aided and abetted the OPEC increase, while pleading helplessness to their price-gouged public. "A form of bilateral symbiotic oligopoly" is the author's complicated if caustic term to describe the relationship between the oil "majors" and OPEC...
...Miscellaneous Part I the entry from Mather 438 came up with a rather caustic response to the question about the hits by The Buckinghams, charging "Name a Buckingham, I dare you--I double dare you." Meanwhile, grad student Robert Landsman insisted that the everyday housewife gave up "pills" for me. Pretty big sacrifice...
...Conference of Mayors said the plan did not do enough to help cities. The AFL-CIO, led by George Meany, got downright caustic. It adopted a statement calling the program "a retreat from the goals which we understand President-elect Carter to have set during last year's election campaign." The goal the council had in mind was cutting unemployment by 1½ percentage points this year; to do that, the labor leaders want a stimulus of as much as $30 billion in 1977 alone, with most of the money going directly to federal job programs. Most surprising...