Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appeared on the show Tuesday night as well, but lost in what he called a "tragic finish." It all turned sour, he said, when he missed a question on saccharine in the category "Sweeteners...
...continue to expect too much from politicians, we not only risk making candidates scarce. The real price for refusing to separate morality form politics is widespread cynicism. Our public culture grows sour as we wonder whether there is any point--for politicians and for us--to engage in politics...
...half a cheer for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, which suggests that the true heroes are those people who day by day must tend to misfits, and do so with love, tenacity and a determination not to go terminally sour in the process...
...ultra-show-biz-savvy New York intellectuals whose act is an ironic deconstruction of magic shows in addition to being a very impressive magic show (see box). They first played Vegas a year ago. Penn Jillette's fondness for Vegas, like every hip baby boomer's, is sweet-and-sour, simultaneously bemused and fond. Of a traditional Vegas variety show at Bally's called Jubilee, he rants, "In the first five minutes they destroy temples and sink a giant model of the Titanic -- there are 80 topless dancing women while the Titanic sinks, blast furnaces spewing fire. You look around...
...game started off on a sour note for the Crimson, however. Perhaps the team was a little too fired up, as sophomore defender Peter McLaughlin was whistled off for slashing 10 seconds into the game...