Word: vitriol
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...essentials of U.N. diplomacy remain, as Adlai Stevenson once defined them, "protocol, alcohol and Geritol," the 23rd session will likely provide more than usual amounts of vitriol. Czechoslovakia and Viet Nam offer abundant fuel for debate, even though both are absent from the 99-item agenda. But they are effectively out of the U.N.'s scope. Czechoslovakia's new representative, Zdenek Cernik, spread the word that an Assembly debate would be most unhelpful to Prague, and the Russians, who doubtless dictated Cernik's position, vociferously agreed...
...nothing really happens. Time Present is monopolized by Pamela (Jill Bennett), an unemployed actress who swigs champagne and keeps a deathwatch on the only man she seems ever to have adored, her actor father. Pamela carps about everything from Americans to taxes to pop art, saving her choicest vitriol for a rival actress she calls "Lady Tinker-Bell" and whom she dismisses as "that blowtorch Mary Pickford." (Played by Kika Markham, she looks more like a striking diminutive version of Vanessa Redgrave.) The role of Pamela is demanding and singularly graceless, but Jill Bennett (the offstage Mrs. Osborne) is singularly...
...years ago this week, Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and the first wall poster, dripping with vitriol, blossomed on the east wall of Peking University's dining hall. Fearful that China was losing the purity of its first revolution and sliding down "the capitalist road" taken by "bourgeois" Russia, Mao set out to purge his vast nation of 750 million people. His weapons were the People's Liberation Army and the youth of the Red Guards, whom he mobilized by closing down the schools. His targets were the party and governmental structures of China, the handiwork...
...negotiate with Hanoi had clearly damped the fires of the antiwar movement. Far fewer moderate Americans marched in last week's 16 "peace parades" (less than 75,000, v. 200,000 in 1967's Spring Mobilization drive); those few immoderates in the crowd made up in vitriol what they lacked in volume...
...Ranger bench during games, screaming profanities that would make a dock-walloper blanch. "Cash and cussing" is the way one Ranger describes Francis' coaching methods: players who turn in exceptional performances find something extra in their pay envelopes; those who let down get a stinging spray of verbal vitriol. Last season, after a lackadaisical game against Montreal, Francis announced that a "television deal" was in the offing. The players' faces brightened. "Yeah," sneered the coach, "the Red Skelton show needs some sloppy