Word: sassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always loved that boy so much it hurt," says Buck, a $100-a-week construction worker. "When he'd wrestle, he'd always have to win. Now he can win with me. He's a better man than me now. He doesn't sass the captains. He's a good, red-blooded American boy." Buck taught his son to hunt and fish in the dense woods near by. Schoolmates of Counter Guerrilla Glide still recall how, when he was twelve, he converted a cap pistol into a zip gun and shot a deer, then dived...
LEOS JANÁCEK: CONCERTINO FOR PIANO (Crossroads). Among the latest additions to the fast-growing U.S. catalogue of Janáacek's works is this four-movement suite for piano with six instruments, which enter by ones and twos to sass the piano and one another. Not top-drawer Janácek, but nonetheless vigorous and jazzy with its insistent themes, bold fistfuls of chords and thumping rhythms. Josef Pálenicek is the pianist...
...Bradnick, 17, stepped off a school bus with five younger brothers and sisters and began walking down a dirt road to her farm home. A masked, rifle-toting man stepped from the woods. Before dragging Peggy into the dense brush, he snapped: "I don't want any sass from you kids. I'm taking this girl...
...your antiquated boots, hypothecate your jewelry, come on the canal, work your passage, walk, take up a collection to pay expenses, raise money on a mortgage, sell 'Tom' into perpetual slavery, stop smoking for a year, give up tea, coffee and sugar, dispense with bread, meat, garden sass and such like luxuries-and then come and hear Jenny Lind." She sang Mozart, Weber, and Meyer beer, offset by such additional items as Comin' Through the Rye and The Last Rose of Summer. Presenting a little-known song from an opera called Clari, she immortalized Home, Sweet Home...
From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik...