Word: sassing
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...Blige school of intonation and generic girl groups whose lyrics made the Spice Girls seem like Joni Mitchell--"On & On" was unlike anything I had seen or heard in awhile. A pastel-infused riff inspired by The Color Purple, I fell in love with the song's sweet sass, thoughtful hip-hop jazz-poetry. In the year of 'Lil Kim, Erykah was a refreshing surprise, reminiscent of Minnie Ripperton's '70s heart-break funk and Billie Holiday...
While the players never gave us an ounce of sass or trouble, the season was not without incident. We had one zealous father who thought we weren't doing right by his son, and indeed we may have given the lad short shrift in response to being pressured. After a game in which I screwed up a substitution, which resulted in this player not getting an at-bat, the father somewhat publicly berated me and my coaching. But he was just a father who cared a lot about his son, and his son was a very sweet...
...worry about them when they wander into the world of adult television, with its sex and violence and sass. But in reality, prime time provides only about five violent acts an hour, while the Saturday-morning baby sitter offers children about 26 such acts an hour. Studies have shown that the more violence children watch, the more likely they are to act aggressively. A child watches more than 100,000 acts of violence on television before he or she is finished with elementary school, according to the American Psychological Association...
...played Peter Pan's young Wendy in the hollow that was Hook. She got a break at 19 when she was cast as the evil Ginnie (she steals jewelry from corpses) in Steve Kloves' Flesh and Bone. Wearing Lolita sunglasses and a play-dumb smile, she displayed slow sass and a wicked intelligence. "She was sunshine and light when she walked into the room," says Kloves of Paltrow's audition, "but as soon as she read, a veil came over her and she totally inhabited the character. She had tons of spontaneity and raw nerve. You could feel the confidence...
Shar von Boskirk's Anita is heavy on sass, making her excellent in the back-and-forth taunts of "America," but rather too cute for comfort in the long haul. It is hard to play a Puerto Rican caricatures without mugging, however, and it is certainly better to have a spicy Anita than a bland...