Word: tarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Me. Sid Caesar is the laugh-combustion engine of this musical comedy. Neil Simon's tart script, Bob Fosse's inventive dances and Virginia Martin's dingdong Belle Poitrine help to keep the evening chugging merrily along...
Little Me. Sid Caesar is the laugh-combustion engine of this musical comedy. Neil Simon's tart script, Bob Fosse's inventive dances and Virginia Martin's ding-dong Belle Poitrine help to keep the evening chugging merrily along...
...also a witty critic who can sometimes be more eloquent in prose than he is in verse. In the opening address at the National Poetry Festival in Washington (the first in U.S. history), Jarrell surveyed American poetry and the poets of this century and delivered himself of some tart judgments. Excerpts...
...imposes any recognizable pattern on the various narrative fragments. Arthur Brown, to take only one other example, has suddenly sprouted a Falstaffian beard and manner: in the book, of course, he is the mildest and most sober of men. In fact, only G. H. Winslow, the College's delightfully tart ex-Bursar, and M. H. L. Gay, the Senior Fellow, retain any of their Snow-given characteristics; and their function is minor and wholly comic. The other figures are inadequately drawn and only sketchily donnish...
Other women writers bring out the best in her shrewd, sharp judgment. She displays a witchy admiration for the "tart effervescence" of Mary McCarthy, accurately noting that the cool, almost brutal realism of her sexual passages is light-years away from the passion-tinged descriptions of male writers. One notorious McCarthy story, she writes, "is about contraception in the way, for instance, that Frank Norris's The Octopus is about wheat. There is an air of imparting information-like whaling in Melville." Reviewing Simone de Beauvoir's prolix attack on male imperialism. The Second Sex, Hardwick pricks...