Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gudge has two serious problems: he is dying of cancer and he is totally at the mercy of his new wife Caryn, a dexterous Texas tart who has decided that she wants nothing less from Bubber than the most dazzling collection of Renaissance art left in private hands. Unfortunately, the pictures are not for sale. In addition, the dying man is hell-bent on getting even with a half-sister who once cheated him and a Senator who once humiliated him on TV. Gudge's revenge involves a vast investment swindle that will administer America (in the author...
Richard Ben-Veniste, 39, assistant special prosecutor whose tart questioning about missing tapes frequently rattled White House staff in court hearings. Still feisty, he is founding partner of Washington law firm. Was attorney for Abscam Defendant Howard Criden, Philadelphia lawyer. Filed suit on behalf of several clients against Air Florida after last winter's crash of Boeing 737 in Potomac River...
...minimalism, a now much larger (though not necessarily smarter or wiser) group of art consumers wants recognizable images and fictions of involvement; so we are inundated by painting that makes reference to the human figure. This is "historically inevitable." Impossible, inevitable: it only goes to show what a flighty tart that old muse of history...
Over the long haul, Bendix may indeed have been wise to buy into RCA, despite the unusually tart reaction. The only risk for Bendix is that RCA's price will fall. For that one chance of failure, however, there are several of success. Says Analyst James Magid of L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin: "Bendix just put its money on the table and now can sit back and wait. The long-term value is there...
...take such an instant dislike to each other are bound to end up together. They might have spared themselves much trouble that is not as funny and dear as David Ward, working from two John Steinbeck novels (the other is Sweet Thursday), thinks it is. Debra Winger is a tart tart and, as in Urban Cowboy, the best thing in a bad movie. But Ward, who wrote The Sting, seems to think that what they canned on Cannery Row was not fish but fruit. There is a peachy, syrupy quality to the film that first then chokes...