Word: vitriolic
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SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is perfectly cast as the husband, indiscriminately spraying comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is wriggly as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past...
SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is jokingly brilliant as he indiscriminately sprays comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is a wriggly delight as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past...
...thinks. Harold, in a skull-popping panic, half-dials phones, swigs champagne from a bottle, runs to the door with his scythe and roars out bloody maledictions on "the Goddamn spade frogman." In a performance marvelously sustained at the pitch of brilliance, Jerry Orbach sprays comic vitriol without ever letting the playgoer forget that this man's heart is in a vise of anguish...
...sniped sporadically for two nights, until Illinois Governor Otto Kerner ordered in 50 National Guard troops. Six hundred guardsmen were mobilized in Minneapolis, whose Negro population is only 2%, after two nights of rock throwing and arson. Gangs in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lobbed rocks and vitriol at Whitey. In West Fresno, Calif., Negro rioters set fire to a lumberyard, spent three nights bombarding the community with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Durham, N.C., Erie, Pa., and Nyack, N.Y., were the scenes of racial eruptions...
...Green Eyes), does so well in this genre that the male reader feels like an eavesdropper. She seems to burble on in all innocence, but can take the hide off the back of any man's vanity. She writes in ink as green as Irish grass-or vitriol...