Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first thing everybody noticed when Arnie arrived at Los Angeles' Rancho Municipal Golf Course was that he was back on cigarettes, after a year of trying to give them up. He was also belting his drives with fresh gusto, and he was using a new putter. On the first day, he limbered up with a so-so 72. Next day he cut his score to a five-under 66, and in the third round he was the old Arnold Palmer. His tee shots carried 310 yds. or more, and his putting was uncanny: twelve times in 18 holes...
That second score imbued the Crimson sextet with a fighting spirit it maintained until the waning moments of the game. Harvard started scrambling frenetically for loose pucks, checked with gusto, and even got into about five fist fights. One of them was a wild melee in the second period which sent four players to the penalty...
CINEMA JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Marital infidelity activates the subconscious of Actress Giulietta Masina in this psychic three-ring circus staged with unbuttoned gusto by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8½), the Barnum of the avantgarde...
Jean resists the lecherous counsel of Mama and her sponging stepfather (played with gusto by Raf Vallone) but finds a friend in kindly Arthur Landau (Red Buttons), the actors' agent who in real life raked up most of the muck packed into Shulman's scurrilous bestseller. "You have the body of a woman and the emotions of a child," Landau tells her. Soon Jean's reputation is made by a ruthless producer whose playbuoyant lair features a bedroom equipped with a Roman-size bath, a circular bed, mirrors, and an adjoining jungle paradise with torrential downpours...
Kettleson, too, did a fine job with the music, though I wish his voice had been stronger. Weber sung less brilliantly, but played with more convincing gusto. Randolph Lindel (Sveglioto) and Martin Wishnatsky (Giovinetto) performed their sneeze-yawn duet with suitable enthusiasm...