Word: falstaffian
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Agrado is one of Almodóvar's great creations, and the avatar for his artistic message. Her name means pleasure, and she is a sort of Falstaffian clown - colorful, pleasure-seeking and lovable. She sees life as a bagatelle, not a soap opera. If there is a complaint to be made about this adaptation it is that Australian-born writer Samuel Adamson ultimately ignores the Agrado spirit by deciding in the final scenes to take himself and the play too seriously...
...Falstaffian proportions and equally wide-ranging tastes, Overton wants his food to be both popular and populist. "The stuffiness of waiters? That's got to go," he says. Not everyone can afford the $30 miso-glazed black cod made famous by Nobu, but the Cheesecake Factory's best-selling miso salmon is only $18 and three times the size. "Why should that memorable food experience be limited?" asks Bob Okura, the Cheesecake Factory's corporate executive chef. Critics call the portions a gimmick; health policy experts call them a dangerous contribution to obesity; the Cheesecake Factory sees value, encouraging customers...
Thorpe is a warm, Falstaffian 41-year-old who paints her nails fire-engine red. She has a mop of frizzy, streaked hair and a tree-of-life tattoo above her enormous left breast. Even adversaries acknowledge that Thorpe runs a shrewd, deeply entrenched organization. "B.R.O. has usually been on the defensive, but they have also been persistent," says Kevin Mannix, who chairs the state G.O.P. "This is an example of persistence paying off. Then again, nobody should expect to have the kind of secret access to public officials that occurred here...
...surprised to hear that he was not older than 76 when he died. Over the decades Keeshan literally became the kindly old man he created at only 28--he didn't grow his soup-strainer mustache until the mid-'60s, and his face and figure gradually rounded into kindly Falstaffian proportions as the years went by. (The bowl haircut, however, was always a wig.) Though he cautioned parents against using TV as a baby sitter, knowing some would anyway, he made himself into a virtual grandfather. "It was not a show," he would later say. "It was a visit...
...plot of The Spice Garden revolves around the friendship between the leaders of the island's two communities: Father Xavier Lunas, a Catholic priest, and Ghani, a Falstaffian hotelier and fish merchant. At the beginning of the novel, a wedding is being planned between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl. The social cataclysms that have begun to rack Indonesia are felt here only as faraway echoes, until a boatload of survivors of gruesome atrocities in strife-torn Ambon, the capital of Maluku, washes up on Noli's shores. Soon afterward, a gang of jihadist rabble-rousers arrives, with...