Word: tartness
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...only people who make love all the time are liars"), some charming lecherdemain in the scenes involving Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold, a sexless performance from Caron and a lifeless one from Jourdan, a wonderful happy ending which wittily demonstrates that life has more tricks than an old tart, a singable (though not memorable) musical score, and enough bibelots, furbelows, fichus, berthas, boas, sconces, socles, credenzas, teapoys and Canterburies to deliriously overdecorate this most ornate of the cinema's recurrent funerals...
Inside the cafe communication was simple and direct. Order placed at a counter were relayed to a kitchen immediately in a loud voice. The efficiency of the system was further improved by the use of coded abbreviations by means of which, for example, a piece of apple tart with ice-cream emerged as, "Ice the apple...
Going Fishing. The P-D has always stood for the hell-raising of Fitzpatrick, who has twice won Pulitzer Prizes for his cartoons. Pencil-slim (5 ft. 11½ in., 126 lbs.), well-tailored, tart-tongued, and an accomplished crapshooter, Fitz was born in Superior, Wis., attended the Art Institute of Chicago, warmed up with some front-page cartoons for the Chicago Daily News, and was hired by the P-D in 1913 at 22. Fitz devised dingy Rat Alley as a cartoonland home for the criminal and corrupt, and his victims squirmed to find themselves there. Wailed one Missouri...
Kenneth Eugene Hager, 45, is a big (6 ft. 2 in., 240 Ibs.) cop who knows every lush, pimp and tart on "Sin Corner" in Charleston, W.Va., where he has been running them in for 20 years. Today he is Charleston's Policeman of the Month, but not for making arrests. Ken Hager's proud specialty is saving souls...
Since a foreign picture cannot be booked in most U.S. cities without Manhattan reviews, Father Panchali will almost certainly not be booked elsewhere in the U.S. Meantime, Manhattan's art houses looked more than ever like tart houses, as their marquees showed: The Adulteress ("absorbing drama of sin"), And God Created Woman (starring Brigitte Bardot), Sins of Casanova ("wicked"), The Bride Was Much Too Beautiful (Brigitte Bardot), Smiles of a Summer Night ("bawdy, nawdy"), The Light Across the Street (Brigitte Bardot...