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Along with another acerb little volume, Gore Vidal's The American Presidency, it can be taken as an ideal chaser to the recent binge of Monicaholism.
From Time Magazine Archive
The film's tone is acerb, but its climax is as predictably uplifting as Rocky's and as surefire effective as Damn Yankees'.
From Time Magazine Archive
"One might suppose that all of this should be entirely clear to any careful reader of the Court's decision," wrote Stewart in acerb conclusion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the climax as predictably uplifting as Rocky's.
From Time Magazine Archive
She denied that stenographers could ever form a union, but she could not answer his acerb, “Why not?”
From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair
