Word: mordant
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...mythical as the imaginary son in Woolf-and when that fails, he leaves his wife. An original in its own right, Joe Egg owes no dramatic debt to Albee's masterly play-yet both works breathe the same choking psychic air and alike are planted in the same mordant, macabre soil of human comedy
...work on the program. There are always a lot of notes in Hindemith and the Band's performance exposed serious problems of ensemble. Walker was often reduced to signalling huge downbeats in an effort to get his musicians together again. Problems of execution obscured most of the composition's mordant sense of humor. The one saving grace was the frequent konzertante nature of the writing, which provided an opportunity for some brave solo work by flute, saxophone, and trumpet...
...treasure trove including old Christmas cards, Russian maps of Moscow and Minsk, his Marine Corps discharge and an Oct. 20, 1963 copy of the Worker that Marina thinks collectors would dearly love to own. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Mighell conceded that Marina "definitely will receive compensation" for the mordant memorabilia. "The question," he added, "is how much...
...bathos or tight-lipped understatement. Years may pass before it can be viewed with anything like objectivity-and then the initial, highly emotional reaction may fascinate the historian as much as the event. On display in Manhattan's Dintenfass Gallery last week was an exuberantly witty and challengingly mordant display of 52 paintings and collages anatomizing an assassination. Its extraordinary impact derived from the fact that the artist, Elias Friedensohn, 42, had chosen to examine the hysteria attendant on the death-not of John F. Kennedy in 1963, but of President William Mc-Kinleyin...
Manhattan's Whitney Museum occasionally displays a Dickensian sense of satire. It picked Ladies' Day last week to unveil as its third attraction, as unsettling a set of drawings as any museum has shown in years. The 30 drawings were the handiwork of Iowa's mordant Mauricio Lasansky, 52, Argentine emigré printmaker and head of one of the nation's best-known graphics workshops in Iowa City. His topic: the excesses of bestiality displayed in German extermination camps of World War II. The impact of the drawings is so devastating that the Chicago Institute...