Word: tarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Boar's-Head Tavern, Mistress Quickly (Jan Miner), in an orange and yellow-green costume, sports an appropriately fiery head of red hair, but is otherwise forgettable. The tart-tongued tart Doll Tearsheet (Alix Elias), dark-haired and rouge-cheeked, has only her low neckline to recommend her; the monotonous and whining voice with which she delivers all her lines is painful beyond belief...
...tart final column, O'Hara claims that the newspapers canceled because he was too conservative for their tastes. Most readers who like O'Hara enough to plow through the book, which covers everything from politics and education to journalism and television, will concede that he has a legitimate beef...
...HOSTAGE (Columbia). Whether through providential design or evolutionary quirk, an Irishman's tongue is the nimblest portion of his anatomy. The late Brendan Behan's tongue was rough, racy, tender and tart. His play, if it can be called that, is a cross between a magnificent barroom brawl and every vaudeville turn in the book of yesterday. Julie Harris and an intoxicatingly zestful company offer this bawdy, irreverent toast to the world...