Word: tartly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surprisingly Tart. In the circumstances, the on-camera people - excepting a resolutely benign BBC royalist named Frank Gillard - were surprisingly tart. Low-profile Anchor Man Robert MacNeil thought the toasts banal even by the dull standards pertaining to events of this sort; Cooking Expert Julia Child - her usual burbling self as she nibbled and chatted with White House Chef Henry Haller - let fly publicly at the undignified quality of the showfolks' contributions; and Upstairs, Downstairs' Jean Marsh took politely dim views of everything from American vegetables to the institution of monarchy. The PBS cameras, fighting through the longueurs...
...Tart and Treacle. The gibes were not always unfriendly though. A generation of British children grew up believing that Santa Claus had an American accent and called all girls Honey. There were more than 70,000 wartime Anglo-American marriages, and the great majority appear to have fared well...
Author Norman Longmate, who has created this nostalgic blend of tart and treacle, had never met an American before 1941, when he was 15 years old. He later served with a combined U.S.-British group in London's Grosvenor Square ("Eisenhowerplatz"), and points out that transatlantic camaraderie had everything going against it, including the barrier of a common language. G.I.'s were startled to hear their girl friends complain that they had been "knocked up" (awakened) during the night. "Say, Honey, what do you do about sex over here?" inquired a hope ful Yank in County Antrim...
Claudine shortly moved on to Sabich, but in recent months there were signs that their relationship might be foundering. Some Aspenites contend that Claudine's tart tongue and aloofness had made her an outsider among the resort's regulars. Not long ago, Sabich reportedly told a close friend that their relationship was at a crucial point. "It's either going to end," the friend quoted Spider as saying, "or we'll be married within a year." Rumors were flying in Aspen last week that the skier had been considering ordering her and her three children...
Drastic Love. Most of the stories here revolve around fussy, aging bachelors. The men are, as one tart-tongued female claims, typically Irish victims of "the whole monstrous regiment of wom en from Old Mother Hubbard, and Old Mother Goose, and Holy Mum the Church, down to Mother Ireland and your own dear departed and long-suffering Mother Machree." Thus in Mur der at Cobbler's Hulk, a retired travel agent lives in fastidious loneliness near a remote village. A woman attacks his prim self-sufficiency. "No love. No drink. No friends. No wife. No children. Happy man! Nothing...