Word: tarte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Major Difference John Major, 47, Britain's new Prime Minister, is far younger than Margaret Thatcher, but he's more cautious and a lot less tart of tongue. Major borrowed strategy from the "kinder, gentler" playbook, identifying with the Iron Lady's successes while promising to clean up her excesses...
...Massachusetts the tart tongue of Boston University President John Silber had swept him to the Democratic nomination over a party stalwart. But he tripped on it in the battle with Republican William Weld, an aristocratic former federal prosecutor. Silber offended blacks and women and frightened voters of all types with his anger. (In typical style, he branded Weld a "backstabbing son of a bitch.") Weld's 4% victory was largely a rejection of Silber's intemperateness. Says pollster Gerry Chervinsky: "Voters bought his message, but they couldn...
...question. It goes back as far as Bridge over Troubled Water, when Paul Simon gathered some unexpected, tropical-inflected rhythms around him and first really found his voice. His lyrical voice, that is: the tart, tempered combination of irony and melancholy that would turn him into one of the best writers of his generation, either in the grooves or on the page...
...lightened up. The recipes from Amish and Mennonite families in Indiana are less daunting to the cholesterol conscious. But how can there be an Amish cookbook without shoofly pie, that gooey + concoction of molasses and brown sugar? And I still have never found a good recipe for the peach tart that Grandma Fultz used to make in late summer...
...coitus of an aging rake (Peter Weller) and a nubile flapper is rendered interruptus by untimely calls from his other women. Former teen queen Molly Ringwald delivers her lioness's share of the Parker sallies with engaging zest but seems a bit too twentysomethingly modern for a tart of the Roaring Twenties...