Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a year, Britain has carried on a sort of comic-opera blockade around the oasis of Buraimi. a cluster of 8,000 Arabs in mud-walled villages not far from the Persian Gulf. Last week the blockade abruptly lost its comic flavor. There was shooting in the desert and blood on the sand...
...freewheeling-ly get together over Lady, Be Good-At Home with Ethel Waters is delightful. But the part proves greater than the whole. The star offers more than 20 numbers, in a program that mingles the atmosphere of the nightclub, the concert stage and Broadway without achieving the full flavor of any of them...
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor (Fleet Street Choir, conducted by T. B. Lawrence; London). A massive and elegiac work, written in 1923 by the dean of British composers. Through masterful maneuvering of block harmonies and medieval modes, he produces an antique flavor appropriate to the subject without once sounding musty...
...Jones discovered Freud's writings as a brilliant young practitioner in the safe sun of the Edwardian era. He reacted as though he had found the elixir of life. He mastered German to extract the full flavor of every word, and introduced psychoanalysis to a shocked England. Orthodox physicians (in the Freudian phrase) ventilated their aggressions on the pioneer analysts...
...show," said one enthusiastic reviewer, "reeks of garlic." He was describing an exhibition in Paris' Louvre of work by painters born in Provence (where garlic is even more popular than elsewhere in France). As a group, the paintings did give off a strong flavor: baroque, darkly passionate and hot as the Midi sun. The most famous of the lot were by Fragonard, Daumier and Cezanne. (In maturity they learned to blend garlic with more subtle spices, and rose above their baroque beginnings to highly individual achievements.) But the star of the Louvre's show was a lesser...