Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Britain's Minister of War John Profumo, husband of refined movie star Valerie Hobson, has been sharing the sexual favors of teen tart Christine Keeler with Soviet spy Eugene Ivanov . . . Keeler's blond pal Mandy Rice- Davies, 18, declared in court that she had bedded Lord Astor and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. . . . Mariella Novotny, who claims John F. Kennedy among her lovers, hosted an all-star orgy where a naked gent, thought to be film director and Prime Minister's son Anthony Asquith, implored guests to beat him . . . Osteopath and artist Stephen Ward, whose portrait subjects include eight members...
...importance of France is clear in rehearsal photos too, but elsewhere the reader could wish that Fraser and Arnold had checked in more with each other. The pictures show that ballet master David Richardson is part of the inner circle, but he doesn't figure in the text. The tart voice of corps member Ty Granaroli is invigorating, but there is no captioned picture of him. But then, some of the best shots are of dancers with their dogs, hauled along on the lonely tours. And the piles of pointe shoes, grubby, used-up torture instruments. A ballerina...
...could choose based simply on his own likes, he would tap his friend the Waspy and witty Wyoming Senator. Extremely popular and partisan, he would be an effective attack dog. Though ardently conservative, his pro-choice abortion stance would ruffle the right. He looks like Ichabod Crane, and his tart tongue could get him in trouble. Worse, his state has only three electoral votes...
...Dmitri Predkov, 17, stood up to answer a question in his history class at Moscow's Middle School No. 734. The question: "Is perestroika ((Gorbachev's economic and social reforms)) a natural stage in the development of Soviet socialism?" Dmitri's answer: No, it is not. He added the tart opinion that some people say otherwise "only because Gorbachev is head of our party." A classmate, looking sporty in a black leather tie, was equally bold in discussing the loosening constraints on % Soviet citizens. People of all stripes, "even fascists," he insisted, should have the legal right to form their...
This colorful crew is self-satirizing. Any moralizing comment on their behavior would be superfluous. As for the central triangle (a cad, a cuckold and a tin-hearted tart deluded into thinking she has at last found a grand passion), it is too banal to awaken much emotion. Nor is there any point in using these figures from a remote society for social criticism. No, Radford has done the right thing with his material by observing the exaggerated tonalities of glamour-trash fiction. As a result, White Mischief plays as something a lot of people claim to have been missing...