Word: tarted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
COMPARING MIKE ROYKO and Andy Rooney is like comparing a lime to a pumpkin. A lime is a sophisticated citrus fruit: full of acid, yet capable of sweetness as well as tart; a lime's proper home is in a drink on a bar. Chicago-based journalist Mike Royko's columns are sophisticated, too--well-crafted, balanced deliciously between tart satire and sweet comedy, and discussed, discovered and sittiated often in bars...
Mondale's tart reply, addressed directly to Reagan, was: "Your definition of national strength is to throw money at the Defense Department. My definition ... is to make certain that a dollar spent buys a dollar's worth of defense." While repeating his oppositon to the MX missile ("a sitting duck") and the B-l bomber (flying it, he said, would be "a suicide mission"), Mondale rattled off a long list of weapons systems he did favor. Money saved on the MX and Bl, he contended, could be spent for other military purposes, like strengthening conventional forces in Europe. Said Mondale...
George F. Will, the most talented of the lot, is going through a change of persona more than a change of views in his second career as tart questioner on ABC'S This Week with David Brinkley (where he is billed as plain George Will). "When you accept an institutional identification," he says, "that does change you." Still a Tory, or a "Scoop Jackson Republican," he is no longer so chummy with Reagan; his continued advocacy of higher taxes irritates Reagan, and Will says he gets invited to the White House "not that much" any more. Given television...
...thoughts, party favors and salad known as the ladies' lunch has always been something of an art form among Republican women, or at least among those who seemed to dominate in Dallas last week. For certain circles, Nancy Reagan has transformed a sprinkling of fresh raspberries in a tart shell into something approaching the national food. Ballrooms were packed at lunchtime with women who described themselves as mainstream. At a Monday lunch given by Anti-ERA-Activist Phyllis Schlafly, Dorothy Kranhold, an alternate delegate from Danville, Calif, said, "It amazes me that people would think this...
...also very gifted. For Carnelle Scott, the orphan and reformed town tart whom she plays, is a daffy simpleton. Seeking redemption and identity by becoming Miss Firecracker at her Mississippi home town's annual Fourth of July celebration, she could easily become shrill in her eccentric quest, pathetic in her eventual failure. Hunter finds a sweet yet fierce core of integrity in this character that is not only very appealing but the source of the grip Beth Henley's play finally exerts on an audience...