Word: tarte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boss loves her for her tart tongue and tough stands: he still keeps the bumper sticker bearing her infamous sneer at Castro for shooting down two American civilian planes last February: THIS IS NOT COJONES; THIS IS COWARDICE. But Albright's bulldog style is not admired nearly as much abroad. When word of her appointment reached a black-tie U.N. dinner, there was no international equivalent of high fives. Could she, muttered colleagues, gear down her confrontational style enough to succeed in the delicate art of nation-to-nation negotiation? French diplomats, who tangled with her over her aggressive campaign...
...hilarity, high romantic tension or a melodramatic denouement. They make no attempt to either glamorize or deglamorize athletes and their hangers-on. There is a recognizable ordinariness about the way these people stumble in and out of trouble, in and out of grace--an ambiguous note, at once tart and sweet, knowing and innocent, in their relationships. This is completely unexpected in a big, star-driven holiday release. And altogether wondrous...
McInerney's acuteness as a social critic remains intact (a late '70s dinner party is said to have taken place "just before spaghetti became pasta"), as does his occasionally tart way with language. Impressive too is the quiet way in which Patrick, the narrator, finally comes to terms with his conflicting drives. There is a surprising modesty here at the end of this clamorous and overreaching book, a frank conservatism that is close to daring in a work of contemporary fiction...
...Loved by You). "'Cause you were better to me/ Than I was to myself/ For me there is you/ There ain't nobody else," Houston sings, as the chorus shadows her words with "I want to stop/ And thank you Jesus." On the song Houston's tart, high voice is strong and slightly rough, and the accompaniment is a warm wave of piano, organ and bass guitar. It's Motown with angels' wings, and gospel at its finest--taking something secular and making it divine...
Sipping tea in his Broadway dressing room last week, Lane, 40, was subdued and a little weary, his voice only occasionally rising to his patented pitch of whiny sarcasm. (Asked about working in the shadow of original Forum star Zero Mostel, he replies with a tart "Who?") Lane grew up in a working-class Irish-American family in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he regularly starred in the plays at St. Peter's Prep. In New York he started building his theater resume, appearing in flops (the Doug Henning musical Merlin) and a few prestige successes (a revival of Noel...