Word: tarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rocking the Boat, by Gore Vidal. Tart darts at some hidebound U.S. foibles by a young and politically active writer of many parts...
...Tart Replies. In the Senate, Byrd's power is seldom exhibited before the galleries. Ordinarily, he is a poor speaker. But when his dander is up, his oratory can be blistering. His reply to criticism from Florida's Claude Pepper in 1946 is a Senate legend: "When I became a member of the Senate, a distinguished colleague said to me that it never paid to get into a contest with a skunk." When Hubert Humphrey, as a freshman Senator, had the temerity to call Byrd's Joint Committee on the Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures an example...
...Council of Churches as an example of "ecclesiastical elephantiasis." His contributors have taken a dim view of Paul Tillich's religious thought, and Editor Henry claims that the theology of Karl Barth is nullified by its internal contradictions. He is not at all disturbed by Earth's tart reply that C.T. should really be called C.Y. -Christianity Yesterday...
...convincing. Philip Lathrop's camera work has harsh dramatic clarity and Jerry Goldsmith's score just the right mixture of nostalgic balladry and percussive tension, and even when the hand of ironic coincidence seems to overshape a scene or two, Dalton Trumbo's script is refreshingly tart and literate. Pooling their skills, they have fashioned a film of distinction and signed it with honor...
Charles Elson has taken care with his lighting, and Motley's costumes are always appropriate. A special word of praise must go to Conrad Susa for his incidental music. Harpsichord and woodwind gently back up the garden scenes, but most of the time the moods are skilfully underlined by tart wind and timpani. The music is modern, but occasionally incorporates such an authentic medieval device as the Landini cadence...