Word: sourpusses
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...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...
...face of the earth than thou." How empty Whistler must have felt at the end of his life when he lamented that he had "hardly a warm personal enemy left." Naturally, such violence is not for everyone. It takes a person of extremely bad temper, a truly unredeemable sourpuss, to feel comfortable with insults, to take deep pleasure in things like Mark Twain's observation that Wagner's music is better than it sounds, for example, or in Ben Franklin's letter to a new-found adversary...
...little spitfire," her second husband calls her. "Little Ms. Sourpuss" is how Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko describes her. Either way, Jane Byrne's fierce and feisty campaigning appealed to disgruntled Chicagoans, who often welcomed the underdog mayoral candidate with cries of "Give 'em hell, Janey...
...swinging it in my face all day," Bell noted later, "but when you beat a guy three-zip, there's no sense being a sourpuss about...