Word: tarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Last week Dimbleby the Second - Richard's 30-year-old son David - revised the ritual for the BBC. To mark Richard Nixon's visit to Britain, he gave the President of the U.S. as tart and unflattering a coverage as any Nixon got in Europe...
...resumed her career in Miracle on 34th Street, portraying an irate mother haranguing a Macy's Santa Claus. Her sad face and sagging form soon became familiar screen fixtures. She was nominated for an Oscar as Bette Davis' wryly sagacious maid in All About Eve, for the tart relief she brought to such confections as The Mating Season (1951) and Pillow Talk (1959) and for three other roles, but never won the award. Said Thelma: "I'm the William Jennings Bryan of acting...
There were so many more, Steppenwolf and Jose Feliciano, Joni Mitchell's tart beauty, and the Charles Lloyd Quartet's tingling and dignified rhapsodies, but one special word about Procul Harum. They played two flawless sets on successive nights in front of the maedow. I remember them illuminated by the silvery-pink lights of the light show in the dark heat of the night crashing out their rapturous blend of music. Gary Brooker's expansively soulful singing, Robin Trower's eerie guitar, B. J. Wilson's deftly brilliant drumming, Fisher's streaking organ, and above it all the presence...
THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Guns at Batasi (1964), a tart, topical drama about a military coup in Africa, starring Richard Attenborough as a starched relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of touch with the age of Kenyatta...
...interruption. As a matter of fact, what legislation have these two, and any others of like voice, drafted or proposed during their careers to alleviate or eliminate any of the causes of our current social unrest? It looks like the sympathetic pursing of their lips was caused by the tart flavor of sour grapes...