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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.
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The film's tone is acerb, but its climax is as predictably uplifting as Rocky's and as surefire effective as Damn Yankees'.
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Groucho's ambition is to keep You Bet Your Life neatly balanced between human interest and acerb comment.
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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.
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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 Sinclair Lewis
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