Word: waspish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerged from the cavity-prone years, but are not quite ready to compete with leaders of today. They move along quickly, rarely dragging, and, helped by ingenious choreography, the more lively numbers evoke all the electricity of a Singing in the Rain. John Stimpson's solos as Kip, the WASPish, lazy, grinning, beer-drinking jock and all-around good guy, are outstandingly funny, and Stimpson's equally expert singing and dancing, augmented by energy that must come from barrels of pure Saudi crude, provide some of the show's most entertaining moments. There are no holes in this cast...
...Ontario this season, a waspish Woolf out-tongues the Bard...
...covered all the war fronts for the British propaganda office. In the '50s he astonished the fashion world with his magnificent costumes for My Fair Lady and Gigi, and by the '60s he had fully established himself as a waspish, infallible arbiter elegantiae, the Petronius of Britain's comfortably padded decline...