Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nurnberg's impresarios had used simpler furnishings, relied on the majesty of the concept to set the tone. The German production had a touch of Wagner - elaborate vaunting of guilt, protestations of heroic innocence. Tokyo's had the flavor of Gilbert & Sullivan...
...military-government officials are paying no evident attention to the oratory, which has much the flavor of a political campaign in Chicago or Seattle. In America's Korea, as in Chicago or Seattle, free speech has been the rule since the U.S. Army arrived last fall to take charge below the 38th parallel. In fact, U.S. insistence on free speech for Koreans has become the newest impaling post of Soviet-American relations...
...Fowler knows how to write. But it used to be that people didn't write books unless they had something to say. The Viking Press, under the spell of Americana, the opiate of the theatre, motion picture, and publishing worlds, apparently gave Gene Fowler an assignment: to capture the flavor of the Old West, Rocky Mountain division, in which he had been reared. "Solo in Tom-Toms," the result, is not unlike its running mate in the Viking lists, Marquis James' "The Cherokee Strip," in that it captures the flavor of mother's milk and cheap whiskey, but little else...
...very important function. Russian-born and a onetime European journalist, he has the job of seeing that we get the full drama and feel of the meeting. You have to hear the delegates speak and know what they are saying in their own tongues to catch the full flavor and sharpness of the debate. It also helps to be able to talk to them between sessions in their own languages...
...reproduction of the Globe Theater and follows him and his company through the first "act" of the play as Olivier imagines it was performed in Shakespeare's time. Although it might be argued that the cinematic version of the Globe contains inaccuracies of construction, this taste of the full flavor of the Elizabethan stage, of the intimacy of contact between the actors and the audience, the roll of the eye and the spoken aside followed by a howl of laughter, makes this first part of the picture in its way the most delightful...