Word: tartness
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...ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms. Roddy Maude-Roxby is maniacally funny, and fetching Carole Simpson sings songs of 20th century woe with almost Brechtian detachment...
Santawirja got into the tart trade in 1961 when Indonesia's President Sukarno showed up in Copenhagen on an unofficial visit. Amiably, he rounded up some girls for the visiting entourage. So successful was the venture that he decided to supplement his entertainment allowance by running a fulltime poule hall. He teamed up with a Danish national, assembled a stable of 20 women, took a 20% commission from their $50- to $100-a-night earnings. When police sought to question him, he simply claimed diplomatic immunity...
...sentimental tradition. His chief English hero, rich and handsome Captain Turnbull, observes the battles as a headquarters officer while musing on women and love, is posted back to his cavalry regiment in disgrace when he dares protest the scorched-earth policy. Turnbull's London mistress, a tart-of-gold he had rescued from white slavery, follows him to Africa by volunteering to nurse the wounded: "She was the one the worst cases asked...
Piece Period, the troupe's second number, is a tart, witty spoof of people and places, Italian, Spanish, French, English, German. In one of its six segments, Dos, an adventure-bent minx, appears in a saucy blue corselet with a black lace fringe. She is hounded, and eventually grounded, by twin Mrs. Grundys in black mantillas who shadow her every move on angry little sandpiper feet, then go skittering triumphantly off, presumably to tell the neighbors all about...
...added an ingredient that was perhaps mercifully lacking on the stage: where the theater's Irma was the only girl on view, the screen now swings with poules on parade-Kiki the Cossack in fur-topped boots, Lolita in heart-shaped sunglasses, the Zebra Twins, and a nameless tart with a cantilevered bust...