Word: tartness
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...life. But he is overly apologetic for the writings. Penthesilea, Kleist's drama about the clash between Achilles and the Queen of the Amazons on the plain of Troy, does not, as he suggests, combine the best features of Greek tragedy and Shakespeare. It is Kleist's tart little fragments that most charm a reader today. There is, for example, the Swiftian modest proposal for sending messages by artillery and cannon ball, if speed is what everybody wants. There is the marvelously straight-faced account of an ascension in the balloon of Professor J. There is the wonderful...
...wife and daughters to accept the boy. The issue is never much in doubt, since Martin Sheen plays this humanities professor as if his subject were actually humanitarianism. As the wife, Blythe Danner does her customary turn as the best thing about a bad mess. But even her tart realism cannot rescue this movie from its sappy source...
...will "show you my scar for $5"), there is a derisive stereotype of the working-class drudges who get in Wren's way. Wren is so determinedly self-destructive that it becomes hard to care about her fate. Nonetheless, Berman does her best to bring this tough, tart Irma la Douce to life. She and Brad Rinn, as a naive Montana boy who offers Wren vagrant hope of regeneration, snipe amusingly at each other, as if they were the Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon of the Lower East Depths...
...Moors. As they are in North Africa, almonds, egg yolks and honey are the major ingredients of most sweets; regional specialties, however, feature a delicious 16th century cheesecake, rich custards like tocino del cielo (literally, fat from heaven) and some memorable fruit flans, including a luscious apple tart with custard and apple-jelly topping. Que aproveche! Good eating...
...best lemon tart, cognoscenti should head for Jane Grigson 's Fruit Book (Atheneum; $19.95). Here are disquisitions on 46 different fruits, with recipes for virtually every single one, from apples, the world's first fruit, to watermelon, one of the last to arrive in the author's native England...