Word: snappishness
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PROMISE A snappish but decent man without political connections, he wasn't thrilled to find himself in command. "I have been tried and condemned," he said...
...reached the end of Dombey and Son last week, I read more and more slowly, putting the book down at increasingly frequent intervals. I wasnt ready to finish; I wasnt ready to abandon Florence or Walter or Captain Cuttle or Mr. Toots or Florences snappish-but-faithful dog, Diogenes. But people married and reconciled and died and before I knew it the book was over. It ended as many of Dickens novels end, with the older generation fading to insignificance, their wrongs righted or forgotten, and the younger generation brave and happy, ready to strike out on their...
...Olympic accident had been anequally crushing blow to Decker, who missed the 1976 Olympics because of an injury and the 1980 Games because of the U.S. boycott. Her snappish treatment of Budd and "bad loser" TV interviews cost her public sympathy and probably a good deal of money in endorsement contracts. But during five months of recuperation and renewed training, she refueled her competitive fires. In January, in her first race after the Olympics, Slaney set a new world's indoor record for the women's 2,000 (5:34.52), and she turned in several other impressive performances this year...
...lower, on May 17 the WB will launch a show that takes a diabolical spin on American Idol. Created by Mike Fleiss (The Bachelor), Superstar USA duplicates Idol's format, down to the three-judge panel--this one includes rapper Tone-Loc, has-been pop star Vitamin C and snappish TV producer Chris Briggs--but judges kick the able singers off while promoting the earnestly talentless, off-key William Hung types. None of the contestants are clued in to the hoax until the end. "What's extraordinary is to see people who are convinced that they're going...
Ephron has imagined the two of them (Swoosie Kurtz, brittle and snappish as Hellman; Cherry Jones, elegant and withering as McCarthy) meeting in the afterlife, railing at each other anew. "I ruined your third act!" exults McCarthy. "I was your third act!" retorts Hellman. Ephron's play, alas, has two acts full of distractions and gimmicks. There are childhood flashbacks that force grown actresses to talk like widdle girls. The literary men in their lives (Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv) are trotted on and off the stage like stuffed dummies. There are actual stuffed dummies too--a cutesy stage device that...