Word: tartness
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There are plenty of funny moments in this happy hangover of a play, but in groping for satire, Wilson achieves parody. Satire demands moral passion; Fifth of July has no fire on its breath, only a tart tongue in its cheek...
...also resemble each other in personality. Gunter is feisty and blunt. During her years on the commission, Hawkins was a tart-tongued, self-styled "fighter," though she preferred to describe herself as a "Maitland housewife." But as accustomed as they are to a good scrap, the two candidates have so far kept the gloves on. Both tirelessly remind voters of their records and promise to focus on pocketbook issues in the Senate. Standing in a drizzle in downtown St. Petersburg last week, Gunter told an elderly crowd that he would fight for improvements in Medicare and for banning all mandatory...
DIED. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 96, T.R.'s irreverent eldest daughter and tart-tongued "princess" of Potomac society; in Washington, D.C. (see NATION...
...hard to think of Misia as grim, but as usual Proust captured the essential truth. For 40-odd years she was the godmother of European artists. She came to maturity in the Belle Epoque, "a beautiful time for those who were privileged," and she brought zest, taste, a tart tongue and plenty of money to a role she never tired of. If she was a climber, the mountain was Parnassus...
...Deutsche Grammophon). This is an apt pairing: a monument of the Baroque and a modern masterpiece whose liturgical austerity looks back to precedents in the Baroque and earlier. Karajan's Bach, velvety and well turned, may not be for purists, but the Stravinsky seems just right, with its tart syncopations dancing beneath a lustrous choral hymn of praise...