Word: tartness
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...take such an instant dislike to each other are bound to end up together. They might have spared themselves much trouble that is not as funny and dear as David Ward, working from two John Steinbeck novels (the other is Sweet Thursday), thinks it is. Debra Winger is a tart tart and, as in Urban Cowboy, the best thing in a bad movie. But Ward, who wrote The Sting, seems to think that what they canned on Cannery Row was not fish but fruit. There is a peachy, syrupy quality to the film that first then chokes...
...York Mayor Jimmy Walker's private life: "Jimmy Walker, once upon a time, was living openly with this gal all over New York, including the house across the street from me ... She was an extremely attractive little tart . . . Jimmy and his wife had separated, [but during the investigation of Walker on corruption charges] Jimmy goes and hires his former wife, for ten thousand dollars . . . Mrs. Walker comes up to Albany, lives with him ostensibly in the same suite in the hotel, and on Sunday the two of them go to Mass at the Albany cathedral together. Price? Ten thousand...
Garfield and his tart tongue soon will enter American living rooms. An animated Garfield television special will air on CBS in 1982. The script calls for action, adventure and a G-rated love scene: Garfield romances a lasagna. "I'd tell you how the affair ends," Davis says, "but it's not a pretty sight...
Rickover is legendary for his tart, occasionally profane testimony on Capitol Hill, and critics argue that someone younger and less irascible should serve as the Navy's chief nuclear officer. He has had rancorous relations with General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, the builder of the Tridents, charging the manufacturer with needless delays and outrageous cost overruns (now $420 million over the original estimate of $780 million in 1974). Says one Pentagon source: "He's gone through several Secretaries of the Navy and several Secretaries of Defense and has ignored most of them...
...struggle against man been so strikingly captured with words and music. The strength of Bellucci and Hackett, addressing the audience with this particular account of original sin, is electrifying. Nothing more is needed to drive the message through the spectator's heart than the voices of the hardened tart and her procurer, accusing yet beseeching, against the panorama of human misery. Tempted to condemn them, the audience finds itself at fault; it is a hard lesson to take, but a lesson it is, nonetheless. It stands as one of the high points of the entire production...