Word: sassing
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Extroverted Peter A. Dodd ’06 encourages everyone to call out the dance steps. “Give us some sass, boys!” he shouts from the wings as one of the subgroups performs. Soon, the others join him in cheering and clapping out the rhythm...
...FM’s style, sass and savvy could be encapsulated in one person, that person would be the ever-ebullient Elizabeth. This hard-hitting dynamo reporter was first to sign up for a story her freshman year and has continued her trend-setting ways ever since. Churning out cover stories like she was born to it, Elizabeth has investigated everything from Harvard’s stingy financial aid policy to controversial campus religious groups. Her unrelenting quest for truth combined with a plain and simple knack to tell a good story means the magazine’s meatier elements...
...death for a comic. But he prevailed, mostly because of the reservoir of goodwill he had stored up by entertaining the American military on all its battlefields, in all its wars, for a half-century. Those lonely young men, facing death, didn't want soul; they wanted cheek and sass, a moment's escape, girl gags, second-lieutenant gags, K-ration gags--well-machined jokes that drowned out the machinery of war. They loved him for the trouble he took on their behalf. And their affection spread outward...
...Anger Management, written by David Dorfman and directed by Peter Segal, Dave Buznik (Sandler) is a mouse afraid to roar. Traumatized by a childhood depantsing episode, he is reluctant to kiss his girl (Marisa Tomei), sass his boss or speak up for himself in tones above a whisper. Dave needs fate, or a series of preposterous plot machinations, to effect his deliverance. He is put into the care of a radical therapist, Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson...
...German actor who could play Alex but failed. He then interviewed Brühl and knew he had the right man. Brühl, from Cologne, spent eight weeks in intensive training to master the East Berlin accent. His gullible mother is played by famed East German actress Katrin Sass. Other East German actors helped revise the script to eliminate expressions and slang not used in the East. The film, which cost j4 million to make, was initially beset by bad luck. Frequent storms halted filming, a number of actors fell ill, and it proved difficult to remake the East...