Word: tartly
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...Sorelli sisters, unlike characters on many new shows, do not fight aliens. And unlike the quartet of Desperate Housewives, they don't have affairs with pistol-packing plumbers. But what this winsome wallflower of a comedy-drama lacks in pyrotechnics, it makes up for with tart, zippy dialogue that explores their work, love and family dilemmas without cracking open the mush barrel...
...Administration lawyer that have since been made public show an ambitious twentysomething with an attitude--sometimes cautious, always confident, occasionally acid, as when he referred to the Girl Scout who wanted to sell a box of cookies to Ronald Reagan as "the little huckster." And sometimes possessed of a tart sense of humor, as when Roberts replied to a professor anxious about being blacklisted because he had lodged a complaint against a government agency: "Once you let the word out there's a blacklist, everybody wants...
...judges, the contest came down to the Cookie Monsters’ shrimp tart with tomato basil and roasted vegetables and the Professionals’ mojito-marinade shrimp kebabs, potatoes with garlic and chives, and fresh salad with blueberries, strawberries, and citrus vinaigrette...
...David Stockman sits and scrawls on his yellow legal pad all his tart recollections of how things really work in the Reagan White House, he is earning about $2,200 an hour. Figuring, that is, that the departing Budget Director is toiling away eight hours every day to produce by his Dec. 1 deadline the blockbuster book for which Harper & Row has just given him a prodigious advance of $2 million plus. A handsome sum indeed, enough to pay about five minutes' worth of the deficit in the Administration's own federal budget for this year. It would have taken...
...This tart, eccentric hour has aged better than the WB's more dour soaps (Smallville, One Tree Hill) because it has a sense of humor-from the oddball townsfolk of Stars Hollow to the snappy, never sappy dialogue. Girls may look like a drama, but it plays like a romantic comedy. And yet the most central love story is neither the entanglements of single mom Lorelai (Lauren Graham) nor of her brainy offspring Rory (Alexis Bledel). It's the one between the two of them: sharp, witty and highly caffeinated, they're Tracy and Hepburn as mother and daughter...