Word: causticity
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...Francisco Artist Bruce Conner paints and pastes together his caustic collages and assemblages from all manner of thrift-shop odds and ends. When they were shown at the Museum of Modern Art's "Art of Assemblage" in 1961, William Seitz, the show's organizer, was sufficiently impressed to rank Conner on a par with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Yet, while the latter two have gone on to Venicelebrity and $20,000 canvases, Conner, at 34, remains mainly an underground hero, known to the world at large only for his fine experimental films...
...sadistic breaking of "Chilly Willy," a boss con who traffics in cigarettes and Benzedrine inhalers. Prison officials frame him in a homosexual plot, and he is shunted into the psychiatric ward. Though a swift, engrossing narrative in its own right, Braly's novel stands as a caustic indictment of the American penal system. From Dostoevsky to Genet, writers have used prison as an effective metaphor of the human condition. Braly strips away the literary conceits and makes life on the inside painfully real...
Yelping Dogs. After Dirksen had finished, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright rose, three seats away. For more than an hour, the two men exchanged caustic rhetoric...
Mendoza learned his Yankee savvy at the National University of Mexico, where he supplemented his studies by reading all the U.S. engineering trade magazines he could find. To get some on-the-job training, he took a laborer's job at night at a caustic-soda plant being constructed by Chemico of New York. There, by his own recollection, he picked the brains of every American technician he could find. It was, he says, a "live opportunity...
...Dearborn Observatory and the Air Force's longtime consultant on UFOs, wrote a significant letter to Science. (Had he spoken out earlier, Hynek says, "I would have been regarded as a nut.") In the letter, he took his fellow scientists to task for dismissing UFOs with "buffoonery and caustic banter" and rejecting the possibility that saucers are extraterrestrial. "As long as there are 'unidentifieds,' " he wrote, "the question must obviously remain open...