Word: causticity
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...restlessly, frantically, pacing the cage of his life-in-death. "In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost," wrote Dante; Inadmissible Evidence is, among other things, a threnody on the middle years, laced with caustic humor...
Jack O'Brian, 51, who gloried in making enemies during his 15 caustic years covering TV for Hearst's New York Journal-American, will probably make just as many in his new job. He takes over the "Voice of Broadway" gossip column from Dorothy Kilgallen, who died this month. Atra Baer, 38, replaces O'Brian...
...leading manufacturer of cigarette paper. Though the company is principally a supplier to other industries, its other two divisions-Squibb drugs and Winchester-Western sporting guns-produced a third of its sales last year. All of the divisions are busy on several continents. Olin has just opened a caustic soda plant in Georgia and a sporting ammunition plant in Italy, is building a biological research laboratory in New Jersey, a plywood plant (its first) in Louisiana, and a plant in Ireland to produce an ingredient for antidandruff shampoo...
...prod of its new editor, Tom Winship, 45, the Globe has begun to shuck that please-'em-all philosophy. Ads have been dropped from the front page, almost every big syndicated columnist except Walter Lippmann has been signed on, and the new drama and music critics are both caustic and first-class. News stories have become sharper...
Making capital of Frederic Raphael's brittle screenplay, Director Schlesinger never lets his unsavory subject lapse into cheapness and sensationalism. His weapon is satire, spelled out in a caustic picture essay on London society's fags, hypocrites and well-heeled fashion setters, who can lionize a pop artist with no claim to distinction except a five-year stretch in jail. And by shrugging off sex, dryly noting its acceptance as a sort of public utility, Darling succeeds where other entries in the movie sleepstakes fumble. The sharpest asides occur in Capri, where the future principessa and her homosexual...