Word: mordant
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...town big shot caught in the rat race and insisting he loves it. Joseph Kostolefsky, in the same magazine, refashions arty cliché with a lethal satire called An All-Purpose Serious Sensitive Prize-Winning Story. In Contact, John Phillips, son of J. P. Marquand, writes a mordant story of an ex-G.I. and his wife, who tour the Southern France where he once fought...
...Hammarskjold's death. Adlai Stevenson has begun a highly effective series of Sunday afternoon talks on ABC. CBS Reports last week began its worthy three-part interview with Eisenhower (see THE NATION), and Commentator David Brinkley began sounding off on his own, opening his Journal with a mordant discussion that ranged from the U.S. outdoor billboard industry to British tabloid journalism...
Weddings and Babies. A brilliant technical tour de force by Shoestring Independent Morris (The Little Fugitive) Engel, whose candidly filmed story of a smalltime photographer and his "model" becomes a mordant Manhattan Orpheus...
Weddings and Babies. A brilliant technical tour de force by Shoestring Independent Morris (The Little Fugitive) Engel, whose candidly filmed story of a smalltime photographer and his "model" becomes a mordant Manhattan Orpheus...
...moment is anything but soap-operatic. The moviegoer suddenly finds himself wandering in the hero's personal hell and realizes not altogether happily that Engel's picture, most serious when it smiles is essentially a mordant reanimation of Orpheus-on Tenth Street...