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Word: midstep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1973-1973
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...Women such a savory pleasure is as much of a rarity as the play. Mrs. Luce's lines border on the aphoristic, but they lack the pith and elegance of fine aphorisms. Her true forte is the sniper fire of sarcasm in which one character fells another in midstep or midsentence. Many of these lines fall to the busybody superbitch played by Alexis Smith, and she is a past mistress of the lethal riposte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Witchy Laugh Potion | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

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