Word: waspish
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...somehow suggest the sort of skirted arachnid that bites through everything in its path. Two weeks ago, Mercy McCambridge took over from Uta Hagen, playing opposite Donald Davis, as the harridan in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? With this new, brown-eyed, waspish savage, the producers have probably added a year...
Rothenstein, who was knighted in 1952, has fought hard for the Tate-once with his fists. At a bubbly art-show opening, his chief detractor, the waspish critic Douglas Cooper, taunted Rothenstein once too often, and the bespectacled, bantamweight director flattened him with one fat punch. Rothenstein has to buy paintings before they get expensive and safe, and the result is a rare reputation for a public gallery. Its oldest painting dates from Henry VIII, but it also buys Britain's latest Pop artists. Says Rothenstein: "We're a nice mixture-something established and disestablished all at once...
Bergman's treatment of this is unalloyedly graphic. There are no suggestive fadeouts. The camera coldly watches the coupling of his unloving couples, and the result is unlovely. When his waspish lesbian is left alone, the camera lingers to record an act of self-love...
...Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, which closed a successful run last week. In it, she stood out against the fading background of a dated play, skillfully aging from a neurotic 20-year-old through a ripe and experimental maturity into a waspish old age surrounded by three men she has caught and caged...
...speech to the Advertising Council last week in Washington, President Kennedy declared that he was "more than ever convinced" of the truth of Shaw's waspish comment. He noted that by U.S. Industry quarterly with economists today "every problem has several alternative solutions, and every answer raises several questions." But the President had no doubt about his own solution for what ails the U.S. economy; he again asked support for raising the national debt limit, cutting taxes, and running the budget at a deficit. If these measures are blocked, said Kennedy, the result would be a "downturn...