Word: tarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 20,000 people a week have streamed through the museum to see 102 impressive French masterpieces on cultural exchange from Russia's Hermitage and Pushkin collections. One of those people, Art Dealer Daniel Wildenstein, at 48 an eminent authority on painting, was not so impressed. In a tart letter to Le Figaro, he cited 15 paintings as "incontestably apocryphal," which is a polite way of saying fake...
...Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books, dispensed no-nonsense advice (your favorite flavor) and tart opinions last night after her arrival in Cambridge to be Radcliffe's "writer-in-residence...
THESE ARE THE DAMNED. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) unleashes his razzle-dazzle camera techniques in a small science-fiction thriller about a tart (Shirley Anne Field) and a tourist (MacDonald Carey) who stumble onto some nightmarish experiments on the English coast...
Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, who last month intercepted eleven truckloads of Chinese weapons being smuggled from Tanzania to Uganda (TIME, June 4), was least interested of all. In unmistakably tart tones an official Kenya government communiqué declared: "It is not clear to the Kenya government what type or form of revolution the Chinese Prime Minister has in mind. But the Kenya government wishes it to be known that Kenya intends to avert all revolutions irrespective of their origins or whether they come from inside or are influenced from outside...
...film is flawed by a scenario that often strives to make raciness respectable. Defoe's Moll was a hardheaded tart who used her ill-gotten lovers for gain. Novak's Moll uses her ill-gotten gains for her lover, and too soon comes to too good an end as a conventional romantic heroine. Appropriately, in Moll's real-life postscript, Actress Novak and Leading Man Johnson became husband and wife, which makes their wide-screen hanky-panky seem unimpeachably legitimate...