Word: mordant
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Last week, after 17 months on the FBI's Most Wanted list, Brown, 28, reappeared. The dramatic episode was a bitter elaboration on his mordant dictum: "Violence is as American as cherry...
...conceived in the desert by prophets who were themselves psychotics. As a fanatic inmate explains: "We were a nation, a nation that betrayed its God. And we paid the highest price possible -we became smoke and ashes." And all those who returned are, in Kaniuk's idiosyncratically mordant view, insane. During the day they live well. They are allowed to work, make money, build houses, enjoy the illusion of progress. But at night they have nightmares and cry. "The insult scorches," the author explains. The knowledge, the final realization that they were "simply raw material in the most advanced...
...hero of this splendidly mordant, funny novel is Jake Hersh, a ghetto-liberated Jew from Montreal who, at 37, revels in the expatriate life of London, earns considerable wealth and fame as a TV and film director, still loves his shiksa wife of ten years, but has a bothersome question: "Why am I being allowed to enjoy myself...
...Only the certain wrath of city officials keeps J.L. Hudson Co. from shutting its main department store, which suffered $9,000,000 worth of pilferage last year. "We would close the downtown store in a minute if we could do it without being crucified," admits one Hudson executive. With mordant humor, a banner at a recent press-club banquet asked: WILL THE LAST COMPANY TO LEAVE DETROIT PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS...
...Massachusetts' Senator Edward Kennedy seized on the image to make a mordant and perhaps tasteless pun: "America is coming out of Laos on the skids...