Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diving, took up painting and constantly peppered the press with salty jeremiads. After her husband died in 1967, she pursued her interests as energetically as ever. In 1971 she dusted off a couple of past incarnations with a new play, Slam the Door Softly, that was characteristically full of tart one-liners ("I don't want alimony; I want severance pay"). A year later she held a reception for President Richard Nixon at her oceanfront estate in Honolulu before he met with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka of Japan. Luce held no position, official or otherwise, with the magazines her late...
...somewhere between the Proustian ambience of Woody Allen's films and the never-never land of the Emerald City: a town of tart talk and smooth tunes, where women sported black silk stockings and Cadillacs purred down clean streets kept orderly by serried ranks of trusted policemen. The skyline, crowned by the 1,250-ft. Empire State Building, was the most imposing man-made sight in the world, and at night it glowed with the fires of 2 million aspirations. Visitors to Grand Central Station, where the trains were out of sight and the zodiac was on the ceiling, could...
...Japanese client who keeps several concubines in addition to a slavish wife, and who has extremely conservative attitudes toward women. Even though his sleazy car dealer brother-in-law has set him up on more than one date with disaster, Walter is assured that Nadia (Kim Basinger), a Southern tart who's new to town, will be different...
...novel, it turns out, manifests little of the female bashing that made the satiric Stanley and the Women (1985) so scandalous. In fact, dissatisfied wives are given some tart remarks to make about their variously unsatisfactory husbands. And if Amis continues to put liberal ideas through scorching ridicule, he also allows one of his men an expression of sympathy for Britain's unemployed, albeit loutish, youth. Even so, these concessions never denature Amis' characteristic bite; instead they suggest a new pathos behind the comic facade...
...consumption on the premises. It is true that the somewhat misleadingly named Boston Beer Co. sells Samuel Adams, a good, chewy boutique lager that yuppies buy for nearly $7 a six-pack on payday, but the stuff is made in Pittsburgh. To the north, Maine Coast Brewing sells a tart, beer-flavored beer called Portland Lager at a stiff $5.35 a pack, but despite the sea gull, lighthouse and sailing ship on its label, Portland is made by a brewery in Eau Claire...