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Bringing back David Brinkley, as wry of manner as ever but now less acerb, has improved the show but not its share of the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lawrence has Pryor's bantam pugnacity, but he lacks the underdog charm, the skewed genius for mimicry and acerb social humor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the climax as predictably uplifting as Rocky's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Black was older than her brother, and had already acquired that acerb precision which lies in wait with such frequent success for middle-aged spinsters and bachelors.
From Notwithstanding by Mary Cholmondeley
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