Word: brio
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...forget Goody Two-Shoes. This paragon wades into controversy with brio. She has publicly criticized Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's policies and rallied British writers to think more politically. She marches for Soviet Jewry. She organizes petitions and badgers officials to help free dissident writers in jails across Europe and Africa. One of these has made history: playwright Vaclav Havel, the new Czech President. For years, from his prison cell, he exchanged letters with Pinter. The couple will visit Havel to share his triumph in February...
...first time, the elaborate scenery with backdrops, revolving screens and sliding flats that had been developed in Italy. The confidence of his fantasies was striking, and even a costume sketch like the "fiery spirit," a torchbearer for one of his court masques, shakes its red plumage with Italianate brio. And though his inventiveness is best seen in the stone and brick of his finished buildings, one marvels at its evidence in the drawings -- the variations he would run, for instance, on designs for ceremonial doorways, now grave and severe, now bursting with free uses for acquired Italian motifs...
With a certain amount of brio, Bush actually claims that his budget will produce a $92 billion deficit, $8 billion lower than the target. Were these numbers not so conspicuously off base, some economists would fear that slashing the current $170 billion deficit by $78 billion might send the economy into a tailspin...
...York City's Museum of Modern Art, which showed no great enthusiasm for Andy Warhol while he was alive, went after him con brio as soon as he was dead. The bakemeats were barely cold upon the funeral table when the word went out that MOMA was going to give Warhol the palladium of a full-scale retrospective -- his first in New York since the more premature effort that went on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971. Whether MOMA wanted to get the crowds before a rival museum did, or simply to get the job over...
...fresh and refreshingly feckless designs of Sybilla, 25, of Madrid, and Dirk Bikkembergs, 29, of Antwerp, have mostly their brio in common. There is no serious risk that anyone would ever get their labels switched. Bikkembergs works out of a small, somewhat dilapidated studio, where he turns out a line of men's clothing that alternates between the sober gray severity of sweatsuit-style knitwear and the giddy excesses of retro-hippie sports clothes. Sybilla, who designs in a "dream house" atelier in Spain's sunny capital, makes mischievous, inventively styled fashions for women that work from no fixed stylistic...