Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...replacement operation, and has been limping around his Beverly Hills home in stretch Speedo slippers. No matter that a toupee, capped teeth and a partly unbuttoned shirt reveal a touch of vanity. At 73, the man best known for playing prophets and warriors is embracing a new role with gusto: president of the 127-year-old National Rifle Association. As poster pinup for America's muscular gun lobby, he isn't expected to do "nice...
...then. Part of that is spinning off responsibility for local governance to district assemblies, shifting the jobs of housing, feeding, educating and picking up the garbage of Ghana's population to trained technocrats like Nuno-Amarteifio. Local government was career exile before decentralization; now, says the mayor with gusto, "it is where reality catches up with even the best politicians. If we don't make things work here, then we become Liberia...
Judgment Day of the Jackal Carlos the Jackal has also been convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. He too faces the prospect of further trials. But he still has his revolutionary gusto...
Nevertheless, there were ample clues, beyond the obvious energy of the music itself, that Dylan was having a great time onstage. At times he allowed his guitar playing to take the forefront, plucking lead lines with gusto. Reappearing from backstage for his first encore, Dylan delivered a marathon version of "Highway 61 Revisited" in which he traded bluesy licks with his lead guitarist. During several such moments in his performance, Dylan allowed discreet grins to betray the pleasure he was finding in these vigorous interpretations of his compositions...
...with most productions in the A.R.T., all of the actors are superb. Dionysos himself, played with superhero-like gusto by Michael Edo Keane, entrances the audience from the moment he explodes onto the stage, confidently informing us, "I am the son of God!" Unlike the smirking and leering Winsome Brown '95 (the female Dionysos in the earlier production), Keane demonstrates a rich range of emotions. The audience laughs when he drops self-adoring one-liners, sighs when the Maenad chorus drapes themselves over him, shudders when he hollers in anger. This Dionysos is a creature with genuine power, which makes...