Word: causticity
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...generations afterward, Will Rogers twitted in the Twain vein, taking America and Americans to task: "Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with." Soon afterward Fred Allen followed with his own caustic acid. "He was not brought by the stork," Allen once said about a heritage-happy snob. "He was brought by a man from the Audubon Society personally." During the Depression, Allen recommended setting up "a crumb line for midgets." His friendly enemy, Jack Benny, was not far from Twain's platform personality in a radio skit in which...
...American frontier, but it has shed its inhibitions in full public view. Sex is no longer a taboo topic; it is, in fact, one of the commonest. Humor has not only been firmly entrenched in the bedroom, but is increasingly being brought into the bathroom. Even caustic Cartoonist Jules Feiffer says: "It's astounding what's allowable today." The gentle comedies that once titillated the town have been replaced by such farces as What's New Pussycat? and Kiss Me, Stupid, in which playboyesque exaggeration has been substituted for wit. Contemporary audiences are largely unshockable; to build...
...Mysterious World of Muriel Spark," a dramatic rendering by Marion Seldes, John Heffernan and Louis Turenne of some of the author's caustic short stories...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Bill Maitland is a modern antihero, muddled by progress, maddened by the machine, and mangled by his acute awareness that he is irredeemably mediocre. With astounding authority, 28-year-old Actor Nicol Williamson draws all the caustic humor and curdling vituperation from John Osborne's words...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. John Osborne's threnody on the middle years electrifies with bolts of bitterness and sparks of caustic humor. The lead is played with stunning force by Nicol Williamson, a 28-year-old Scotsman, who spares neither himself nor his audience...