Word: causticity
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...misery. Bunuel has mellowed since he made this film: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a clever comedy he made a year and a half ago, uses the same surreal imagery, but in a less direct way. That film was popular, witty, adroit; Los Olvidados is driving, frightening--caustic and political. People who thought The Discreet Charm was amusing, but who couldn't quite see where Bunuel was going, should see Los Olvidados and they'll know...
...racing brain. At least, one would like to believe that he really did declare that verbal contracts are not worth the paper they are printed on, or that extra Indians could be quickly recruited at the nearest reservoir. Or that he dismissed an objection that a script was "too caustic" by announcing that if he liked it he would make the movie no matter what the cost...
Marriage Revealed. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, 73, caustic nonconformist who directed the development of the Navy's first atomic-powered submarines and who was largely responsible for the building of the first civilian nuclear power plant; and Commander Eleonor A. Bednowicz, 43, a Navy nurse who met Rickover several months ago when he was a patient for a respiratory ailment at the Bethesda Naval Hospital; he for the second time, she for the first; on Jan. 19; near Chicago...
...recent ad in a New York City newspaper contained the following encomium to an R-rated ("Under 17 re quires accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian") film: "Loud/ brassy/ biting/ clever/ fresh/ bold/ glittering/ offbeat/ compelling/ truth/ humor/ devastating/ fun/ hilarious/ murder/ rape/ comedy/ inventive/ caustic/ kinky/ droll/ raw/ jagged/ power/ demolishes...
...more fascinating force fields in the world. In a witty, acerbic speech to the Women's National Democratic Club in Washington, Thomas Hughes, a former Assistant Secretary of State and currently the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, last week gave a rather special and caustic view of Kissinger and Nixon -and their present dilemmas...