Word: viperish
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...first American artist to become really famous across the Atlantic: not only in London, like West, but in Paris as well. Since America loves to see its children imposing themselves on the world's culture--a less common sight 100 years ago than now--this perpetual expatriate, with his viperish tongue, large ego and delicately nuanced paintings, has long been an American favorite...
...gallows, certain that they deserved what they got." In this collection of essays and reviews, however, the former Village Voice staff writer too often allows his insights into the self-victimization that has come to dominate the black, women's and homosexual liberation movements to degenerate into viperish personal attacks...
...time sensationalist and wanderer of the world, was 56 and looked older until you got in a fight with him. Terry was resting from his labors by peddling snake oil medicine in country villages when he ran into Ruth, a young garage-owning widow with a viperish tongue. She liked him more than he liked her. She asked him over for a drink. When he left town next day she went with him. Terry had agreed to look after her for a year, because she wanted to try everything at least once. '"Everything" was apparently contained in Manhattan...
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