Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a triangular consistency to good chop suey: there must be rice, for body and nutritional value; there must be vegetables, for crispness and good flavor; but there must also be meat cunning little bite-sine slices which hide among the rice and vegetables and furnish the tang without which no chop suey can be enjode. Where there is no meat, there is no meal, for just as the door plucks the mushroom from the field of toadstools, so does the discriminating diner prove his chop suey with his fork and extracts the tender pieces of flesh...
...There is a flavor of music about this place," said Serafin after he had met other members of the company and taken a good look around the unpretentious hall. "It is a theater with the desire to make art." For two weeks he coached the singers in Italian bel canto, worked with the orchestra, sweetening a pianissimo here, strengthening an accent there, whipping up a tempo to a swirling climax. Last week, on opening night, he lowered his baton on Puccini's Tosca...
...pleasantly to the stage. What results, to be sure, is no longer exactly The Pickwick Papers: in writing for the theater, Playwright Young has been forced to domesticate one of the most gallivanting and helter-skelter of narratives, and hence to sacrifice a good deal of its hearty coaching flavor and its wildly exuberant fun. Moreover, in the act of boiling down the contents of the book, he has scrambled them as well. But if this is a thinner-blooded Pickwick, it is also a more tractable one: genius and tedium might be said to have, exited from...
...monster of a hillbilly boy, finally pay his parents a reward for taking him off their hands. Sample dialogue (strictly not O. Henry as the boy sicks a bear on his terrified captors: "He's a cinnamon bear," says Allen. Replies Levant: "I don't care what flavor he is. He's more apt to taste...
...Sorrows of Andalusia (Luis Maravilla, guitar; Pepe Valencia, voice; Westminster). The guitar is one instrument that sounds better on records than in the concert hall, and flamenco music, with its sensuality and its thumping outbursts, is the guitar's most exciting province. The vocal parts add an Oriental flavor. An Andrés Segovia Recital (Decca) is a more reflective guitar record: the soloist specializes in pure versions of Bach, Schubert and Mendelssohn...