Word: tartness
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...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...
There lingers, too, an affection for the man and an awe of the office that, if properly marshaled, could get the country solidly behind him again. A White House staffer chuckled last week as he recalled the tart-tongued Pat Schroeder, Democrat from Colorado, knifing through the mob at the White House Christmas party so she could be photographed with the President. Indeed, several hundred color shots of legislators posing with the President landed on congressional desks last week, and many of the prints are already down in the frame shop. The newcomers were openly eager for their first invitation...
...lunch, and people along the route, which included Shanghai, Kunming and Canton, gave her the largest reception yet of any foreign trip during her 34-year reign. Trouble was someone forgot to keep her husband Prince Philip, 65, amused. Known as a man with a short fuse and a tart tongue, he saw some students from the University of Edinburgh at a museum in Xi'an. "If you stay here much longer, you will go back with slitty eyes," quipped the royal consort, who went on to call Peking "ghastly" before his wife, in the words of a student, "tried...
Lemmon, however, is not going to have only himself to thank for his umpteenth Oscar nomination. As the long-suffering Gillian, Andrews provides a sane contrast to the frazzle-dazzle of Lemmon's performance. There is more than mere discipline in her work. Her tart, get-on-with-it Englishness stiffens the spine of her characterization -- and makes the one moment when she gives in to her dread all the more poignant...
...author of The Big Sky, among other celebrated works. He is 85, and the last time he came, explained his daughter, Helen Guthrie Miller, "he fell asleep in the kitchen. The next morning he woke up screaming, 'Who's making all that goddam racket!' " Helen Guthrie Miller possesses a tart tongue herself, it turns out. When a woman companion at the recital boasted that because of aerobics, she has the pulse of a 25-year- old, Helen said, "Too bad you don't have a face to match." The Guthries speak their mind...