Word: sassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Donnybrook! (music and lyrics by Johnny Burke; book by Robert E. McEnroe) is a mixture of Irish sass and sentiment drawn from the movie The Quiet Man. However good-humored, it has a great deal about it of the mixture as before-even of its own Act I in Act II. A prizefighter from Pittsburgh (Art Lund) refuses to put up his fists in clashing with a sneering Innesfree bully over his sister's hand, wins the girl (Joan Pagan) through the cunning of a match maker (Eddie Foy), and at length wins over the brother...
...came to Washington last week with five other 4-H Club members to make a "report to the nation." Howard wasted no time. He cornered Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and told him succinctly: "The Government is no good for farmers." Said Howard later: "I didn't sass him or nothin'. I told him the Government should try to get out of the farming picture in ten or 15 years-slowly. The hog market has no price supports and they're doing fine, but the corn market has, and is messed up." A few minutes later...
...Beaton with inspired bad taste, stomp the stage, celebrate the flesh and sneer at the clergy, Tenderloin has a fleering, gamy exuberance. Again, when the stage rocks with the round-dance economics of How the Money Changes Hands, or Ron Husmann rolls out The Picture of Happiness, there is sass and to spare. Jerry Bock's score is better than average, and the Sheldon Harnick lyrics are better than the score...
...Lost Sass. Now peace has taken its kind of toll. In lieu of thinly veiled assaults on brass pomposity, there are special homemaking articles for military wives and front-page stories about some general officer's advancement in rank. There are no crusades; political news is calipered inch for inch so that neither party can claim bias. The long arm of peacetime censorship hangs implicitly over every page. Recently, an editor of the European Stripes was denied permission to reprint some Bill Mauldin war cartoons on the ground that "they show officers in a bad light.' The famous...
Told in neat, revue-skit-sized flashbacks, The Good Soup uses a good deal of stage material that is somewhat reminiscent itself. Its scenes are oftener familiar and hard-headed than lighthearted and original, so that in terms of lightly farcical entertainment, The Good Soup needs more sass and zest. But Soup, with the story it has to tell, need not only be as frothy as champagne, or as French as snails; it can also, and with rewards of its own, be as French as money. There is nothing girlishly rueful or gallantly raffish about Marie-Paule; though...