Word: tartness
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...journalistic tree to trill from in New York, her home town and headquarters of the jet-setters whose fads and foibles she chronicles with re freshing irreverence. Last week Suzy was back home, regaling readers of the New York Daily News (circ. 2,100,000) with her tart tales. Items...
...Henri Garcin). But Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 33, has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting. An actor in the mugging tradition of Toto and Fernandel, Philippe Noiret is excellent as the pawky, paunchy husband; and Catherine Deneuve, as his restless wife, is as light and tart as a lemon soufflé. They and their fellow farceurs prove that in the right hands the flip side of war and the flop side of marriage can still be made fresh and funny...
...quasi-intermission: the play isn't really going on, but there are high-jinks on stage. A movie of rhinoceroses in motion was projected against a flat accompanied by a medley of Elvis Presley songs; another time animal cookies were distributed to the audience. Mine was a bit tart, but eating it, I confess, was the highest synaesthetic...
Little Jan, the narrator, tells us about life even before he was actually born (he has a memory longer than most people's), and it was wonderful there inside. Later, he doesn't think so much of Mom: "She was a portentous tart with promiscuous tastes, a sensual temple-cat used to visiting sepulchral chambers in the dead of night." He dreams at night and has hallucinations by day that mother is a "sphinx, near Thebes, on a bald and spiky mountain ... a hermaphrodite in the guise of an animal." In fact, Mother is pretty smelly...
...tart, witty man in his speech, Krock rarely let such acerbity get into his columns. His criticism was almost always based on stern but high principles. He was also an inveterate writer of incisive letters to the editor. In one answer to a two-column attack by Harold Ickes, he skewered his opponent as a man "who has painted a word portrait of me in his own image. This tendency is familiar to psychiatrists...