Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million sold out in one day. The Yershov Brothers bears some resemblance to Not by Bread Alone in its plot and its factory setting, but unlike Dudintsev, Kochetov will never have to make apologies to the Central Committee for inaccurate descriptions of Socialist life. His book is a sharp attack on those who tried to "take advantage" of the Party's 1956 leniency; intellectuals in general get a sound thrashing...
...kind of possum. The star of Walt Kelly's comic strip (syndicated in 519 papers), is a wide-eyed, ingenuous little critter without a contentious bone in his body, and so. by and large, are all his swampland buddies. But now and then Artist Kelly, who has a sharp way of making a point, converts his strip into a sounding board. In 1954 he invented a new character called Simple J. Malarkey. who looked and fulminated so much like the late U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy that several newspapers took instant offense. e.g., the Orlando. Fla. Sentinel, dropped Pogo...
...once, results followed form, and brought the New Year's Day Bowl picture into sharp focus. California edged past Stanford 16-15, to draw the unenviable Rose Bowl spot opposite Iowa. Louisiana State wiped out Tulane 62-0, accepted a bid to New Orleans' Sugar Bowl. Texas Christian dumped Rice 21-10, got the host spot in Dallas' Cotton Bowl. Syracuse had trouble beating West Virginia 15-12, was invited anyway to face Oklahoma in Miami's Orange Bowl. TIME...
...modern source of the bourgeoisie that the French have ridiculed for a hundred years. And his skill for satire, apparent on only a personal level before, is strengthened by the theme and enhanced by his fuller control of the production. Tati's broadside satire of the modern scene is sharp, and cuts particularly deep since in America there don't seem to be even any shabby unsuccessful humanists left for a comparison--everybody is like Hulot's ludicrous in-laws. But you're laughing so much that you don't feel the pain...
Perhaps Mr. Moss, in his whimsical way, is kidding. Perhaps he is really interested less in reality and illusion than in money, which most of his characters spend their time discussing. (His heroine is the richest woman in the world, a sharp old cookie in gold slacks, who makes her associates jump through all sorts of hoops in hopes of getting their hands on some of her money.) But Mr. Moss has little of interest to say about money, unless it be that money is very important to people, and that they talk about it a lot. Because the play...