Word: tartish
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Clouseau's helpmate is a comic actress who once seemed to have quit movies altogether: Dyan Cannon. But after a four-year absence, she is reveling in the kind of role she plays best: a particularly tart (and tartish) genus of smart dumb blonde. Besides appearing in Panther, she nearly steals Warren Beatty's box-office smash Heaven Can Wait, playing the spacy wife who drips diamonds and drops crudities as she plots Beatty's murder...
...moderns trembling in the night, of war and love and the waiting grave. He tries his hand (not too happily) at a new translation of Catullus' famed lament for his dead brother, and does better with one of the Roman poet's many farewells to his tartish Lesbia. The final poem of the book, History, combines his sense of the past with the immediacy of the present, his feeling for place with his reverence for God. And the concluding lines, though aimed at all mankind, could serve to describe the poet himself...
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