Word: mordant
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...Punch Tom Wolfe in His Southern Snoot Club. But even readers who dis like Wolfe's flamboyant, exaggerated style and who feel that he has less than a firm regard for facts agree that there are few other writers today who have so mordant a sense of the ridiculous or such deadly sharpshooting...
...Your Life offers a mordant answer to the question: Can a hearse driver find happiness with an executioner's daughter? This black comedy from Spain thus uses the weapons of farce to mount a small, stinging attack against capital punishment, though Director Luis Berlanga too often evokes laughter and stifles it at the same time...
...undergone major surgery. In a postscript to his play, Dürrenmatt wrote: "Nothing could harm this comedy with a tragic end more than heavy seriousness." Director Bernhard Wicki falls into that error, compounding it with a gimmicky screenplay. The eunuchs, the coffin, and much of the mordant wit are omitted, as is the wooden leg. The sex angle is fattened up with a juicy subplot. And to make the slow corrosion of conscience more graphic, the good burghers of Guellen struggle against the all-too-solid temptation of a flotilla of trucks-crammed with fancy clothes, TV sets...
...deadpans Comedian-Singer Allan Sherman, 39, "is that you don't have a school song. So I wrote one." The result, seven verses of roughshod wit set to a lively medley of college tunes, is the hit of Sherman's new record, Allan in Wonderland. His mordant Drop-Outs March may do more to keep kids in school than hours of sermonizing by principals and parents. Samples: 4/4 TIME, FORTE
...EASY LIFE. Almost as funny as Divorce-Italian Style, almost as mordant as La Dolce Vita, this brilliant thriller is one of the best Italian movies of 1963: the story of a pixy Quixote (Vittorio Gassman) who grabs himself a solid squire (Jean Louis Trintignant), mounts his sports car and rides madly away on a quest for nothing...