Word: sourest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There he confronts the sourest and most apprehensive national mood to hang over a Fourth of July holiday in years. For millions of citizens penned at home by exasperating gasoline shortages, the only celebration will be a backyard barbecue?if the sporadic strikes by independent truckers protesting the scarcity and soaring price of diesel fuel do not cause new shortages at the supermarkets. Gas lines in Eastern cities are getting longer, despite the spread of odd-even sales restrictions, and the Tokyo agreement to limit petroleum imports obviously will do nothing to shorten them, since it is a scarcity...
...Sourest Grapes: From executives at CBS and NBC who accused top-ranking ABC of running junk-then launched a desperate search for the same kind of junk...
...Sourest Big Apple (and Biggest Bomb): Martin Scorsese's New York, New York...
Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves−the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib...
...that fits his nature and associations. But for him to go out of his way to denigrate the success and poison the esteem of a wide audience for a man whose earthy and forceful works do not fall into the critic's category of approved art constitutes the sourest of gripes. For him to state that,every self-respecting art historian since 1965 would bolster his argument against Benton is ridiculous...