Word: sassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sass Tim Krekel--The Paradise...
...himself, Director Ralph Bakshi knew these dangers; he also knew that the task of translating this ring-cycle to the screen had stymied some of the most formidable names in Hollywood, including Walt Disney, and still he plunged ahead. Bakshi brought to this project none of the brass and sass that animated his earlier cartoon features including the X-rated Fritz the Cat and the jive-talking Heavy Traffic. If reverence had wings, his new picture would fly. The fact that it hobbles simply proves again that the road to Mordor is paved with good intentions...
...propped herself up on the seat in front of her and hissed with redheaded Irish sass, "Well, I'm just about ready to get up there and throw my dress over his head and TAKE OVER...
Erica Jong's first novel feels like a winner. It has class and sass, brightness and bite. Containing all the cracked eggs of the feminist litany, her souffle rises with a poet's afflatus. She sprinkles on the four-lettered words as if women had invented them...
Rose's self-portrait as the indispensable, blunt-spoken lady's lady has already been authenticated by Nancy Astor's biographers. But Rose's impression that her boss seriously put up with her criticism is less acceptable. It is more likely that by letting Rose sass her, Lady Astor reverted to the practice of some of her Southern slaveholding ancestors who allowed back talk from black mammies as a form of amusement. She was certainly capable of such cruel diversions. Despite Rose's profuse claims of devotion, her book leaves little doubt that she felt...