Word: vitriolic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editors "baby" or "sugar," and usually at least three or four of them throw their arms gaily about the reviewer before the sun rises. In the old days, when bitter pans were more the mode, the cast waited anxiously in the outer hall as the reviewer typed out his vitriol behind closed doors, handed his copy to the night editor, and left through the window. Now the cast simply moves its party into the newsroom at about 3 a.m., and many drop into the downstairs office to ask the reviewer how he enjoyed the show or chat about other matters...
Perhaps so, but some voters might wonder if a gift for vitriol is a sufficient qualification for Vice President...
...sits there like a little mouse, looking so cute," says Barnaby Conrad Jr., the author and West Coast restaurateur, "but there's nothing but vitriol in her typewriter." Movie Director John Huston calls her "the best reporter I've ever known." Says Bill Mauldin, Chicago Sun-Times cartoonist: "Anybody who holds still for an interview by her is taking an awful chance, because he could very well lose a lot of skin." These contradictory observations stem from a common experience. Conrad, Huston and Mauldin all held still for interviews by Lillian Ross. Their names appear, amid a host...
...utilizes the limited potential of the plot. Depicting a brainstorming session on the proposed TV series, it tosses some barbs at the television industry ("the smallest show on earth"), and provides a rollicking scene of vitriol and mass confusion among the show's writers. Preston is surrounded by a fine supporting cast in this scene, particularly Leon Janney as the executive of a rival studio and Phil Leeds as the inventor of a machine which provides canned laughter for TV shows...
...high level, one ought to deny himself--no matter how reluctantly--even the best of a low level. Not that I would proscribe all comedy in this play; there is much, and most of it is appropriate. And while I should not temper one bit the venom and vitriol and vulgarity of Albee's dialogue, I do think the play would benefit from less profanity...