Word: tartness
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...desserts--Blueberry Gateaux ($.50), Apple Tart ($.35) and Chocolate Pie ($.30) were sumptuous. The cheesecake ($.50) was luxurious, very rich and not oversweet...
...child's brain damage and a batty vicar who tries to help. Bates pushes for the comedy as he does for almost every other emotion, and the strain shows. Miss Suzman, who last appeared as Alexandra in Nicholas and Alexandra, is good when Sheila is tough and tart but bad when she is tender. When she recalls finding Joe playing with building blocks in a way that just for that one moment gave faint promise of normality, Miss Suzman recites the monologue as if it were a recipe for crumpets...
...Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht refined the characters that Gay created, while Kurt Weill provided a tart and tangy score that is one of the marvels of the musical theater. The juice of art and life, however, flows richly enough through the original Beggar's Opera. The dominant motif-Gay's as well as Brecht's-is that money is thicker than blood. By now, the characters are classic, and they all live up to their names: Peachum (Gordon Cornell), the informer and fence; Lockit (Ralston Hill), the venal jailer of Newgate; and MacHeath (Timothy Jerome), the saucy...
...years after Losing Battles, her long, lyrical, raucous hymn to rural life, she has published a short, muted novel about dying and surviving. Though it contains the elements that have established her reputation-tart humor, the noisy, intricate chorales of Southern social life-this is a more inward, contemplative book than any she has written. Its concern is with what dies with the individual and what can be salvaged through memory and feeling. Its tone is rueful and uncompromising, especially in regard to the way people in this world treat loved ones about to enter the next. "What burdens...
...than I do with Larry O'Brien. I will go anywhere to work for a Republican woman running for office-or if it would help more, I would not go." While the caucus has its share of familiar liberationists like Betty Friedan, it also includes Liz Carpenter, the tart-tongued Texan who used to be Lady Bird Johnson's press secretary; Businesswoman Virginia Allan, who served as chairman of President Nixon's task force on women's rights; and former Republican National Committeewoman Elly Peterson, her party's candidate for Michigan Senator eight years...