Word: sassed
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...children: sugar or sass and nothing very nice...
...over the demise of the jiggle-and-snigger shows. But even at their worst they suggested nothing more pernicious than that men do make passes at girls in Jordaches. The two forms of sweetcoms, the noble and the naughty, are deadlier. They announce that children are either sugar or sass-dewy-souled twerps or stunted comedians-and that they must set the tone for domestic life. Hence, parents must go with the flow: act as dispensers of homilies or as stoic butts for the resident insult comic...
...networks seem befuddled by the conservative trend in the country. They are reluctant to give up sex and sass in favor of traditional values, for fear of losing the hip, young, urban audience that advertisers desire most. They do not seem able to recapture the innocent affection, the pride in being American, that attracted viewers to the optimistic family shows of the 1950s. Yet they seem to think that they can recapture viewer loyalty just by returning to the forms of the past...
...enough to overcome a script that is uninventively repetitive about these characters and the situations they encounter along the way is problematic. Ritt's direction is plodding when it is not obvious. It lacks the romantic lift that this film needs. Luckily, Field has the spunk and sass to redeem Back Roads just as she did Ritt's Norma Rae two years ago. He should never leave home without...
...Kermit Moore (b. 1929), an active concertizer throughout the country as well as in Europe, Africa and the Far East. His recent recording contains the New England Suite by Vally Weigl (b. 1894), widow of the composer Karl Weigl. Moore collaborates here with clarinettist Stanley Drucker and pianist Ilse Sass in a work of modest charm, consisting of "Vermont Nocturne," "Maine Interlude," "Berkshire Pastorale," and "Connecticut Country Fair" (better luck next time, Rhode Island). Moore plays almost perfectly, though the work makes no inordinate demands on its performers...