Word: tartly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Mayor Jimmy Walker's private life: "Jimmy Walker, once upon a time, was living openly with this gal all over New York, including the house across the street from me ... She was an extremely attractive little tart . . . Jimmy and his wife had separated, [but during the investigation of Walker on corruption charges] Jimmy goes and hires his former wife, for ten thousand dollars . . . Mrs. Walker comes up to Albany, lives with him ostensibly in the same suite in the hotel, and on Sunday the two of them go to Mass at the Albany cathedral together. Price? Ten thousand...
Garfield and his tart tongue soon will enter American living rooms. An animated Garfield television special will air on CBS in 1982. The script calls for action, adventure and a G-rated love scene: Garfield romances a lasagna. "I'd tell you how the affair ends," Davis says, "but it's not a pretty sight...
Rickover is legendary for his tart, occasionally profane testimony on Capitol Hill, and critics argue that someone younger and less irascible should serve as the Navy's chief nuclear officer. He has had rancorous relations with General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, the builder of the Tridents, charging the manufacturer with needless delays and outrageous cost overruns (now $420 million over the original estimate of $780 million in 1974). Says one Pentagon source: "He's gone through several Secretaries of the Navy and several Secretaries of Defense and has ignored most of them...
...struggle against man been so strikingly captured with words and music. The strength of Bellucci and Hackett, addressing the audience with this particular account of original sin, is electrifying. Nothing more is needed to drive the message through the spectator's heart than the voices of the hardened tart and her procurer, accusing yet beseeching, against the panorama of human misery. Tempted to condemn them, the audience finds itself at fault; it is a hard lesson to take, but a lesson it is, nonetheless. It stands as one of the high points of the entire production...
...actor on stage and screen, Michael Moriarty, 40, knows the sting of critics' barbs. But Moriarty, unlike most performers, can retaliate in kind. Last week he starred in a tart, off-Broadway monologue called Dexter Creed, written by himself. Moriarty portrays an acerbic, dyspeptic critic loosely modeled on John Simon, 56, the acerbic, dyspeptic drama critic for New York magazine. Simon considers himself an arbiter of high artistic standards. And clearly Dexter Creed doesn't come up to them. In his review of the play this week, Simon growls: "Cruel and unusual punishment." For whom? The playgoer...