Word: sourpussed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andrei Gromyko, the perennial sourpuss of Soviet diplomacy, used to say when reacting to peaceful rhetoric from the West, "One must distinguish between words and deeds." That advice has always applied particularly to the U.S.S.R. Soviet foreign policy has been marked by tactical retreats and no- more-Mr.-Tough-Guy public relations campaigns before. In 1919 Vladimir Lenin cautioned his Foreign Minister, Georgi Chicherin, who was preparing to address an international conference in Genoa, "Never mind the hard language." Lenin pursued conciliatory policies toward Poland and the then independent Baltic states. By the 1940s, those nations had all been brutally...
What do you do if you like this stuff less than most people? The usual view is that only an inhibited, snobbish sourpuss could fail to take delight in a Grooms show. And what, the Grooms fan will say, do you have against humor? The fan has a point, in a way, since Grooms' popularity comes at least in part from the truly awful seriousness of the high-culture industry, its inability to see how weird its own solipsism and sanctimony can look. The mock-religious cloud that formed around abstract expressionism when it was becoming America's first imperial...
Ralph: Be of good cheer, Wanda. Your doting husband understands and accepts your ideological commitment to grimness. But surely even a fearless feminist needn't be a sourpuss in the privacy of her own home. Now how about a nice industrial-strength smile? I can assure you that the Bureau of Feminist Rectitude will never hear about it from...
...implacable satiric sensibility in American pop. They may join the ragtag list of victims, victimizers, unanointed antiheroes and assorted foul balls about whom Newman has sung with stinging wit and unexpected compassion. Newman, 39, exults in playing musically the same role he has picked for himself socially: the perennial sourpuss at the party, over in the corner, casing the room and making nasty cracks about the other guests. On his new album, Trouble in Paradise (Warner Bros.), he has no equal at the underhanded parry and the thrust that kills. The smiler with a knife, making some of our best...
...that's just the start. You've got your puppies and your bunnies, and of course your cats: Garfield and Sourpuss headline here. For a further refinement of the field, you need only examine the various offerings of anti-pet propaganda. Kill the cats, mangle the cats, use dead cats as bowling pins...