Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mormon teens sat on the floor of a second-story room and listened to a husky, white-haired elder narrate the tragedy of Smith's last hours. The elder, using a walking stick to imitate the rifles of the mob, enacted the death scene with stagey gusto, but when the bloody climax came--Smith's disastrous fall from the building--he grew somber. "I personally think that when Joseph fell out that window, the Savior was right there to catch him." There were tears in his eyes now and more tears on the cheeks of the girl with corn-silk...
...stock comic devices and characters. Eriko Watanabe cuts a droll figure as the experienced but caustic and somewhat unattractive dancer whom Sugiyama agrees to partner in an amateur competition; Naoto Takenaka hams it up as a painfully self-conscious colleague who dons a wig and hurls himself with fiendish gusto into the rhumba; Sugiyama's two fellow dance-pupils--one short and hyper, one big and docile--offer some great moments of physical comedy. Amusing, too, are the private investigators whom Sugiyama's wife hires to monitor her husband's movements and who end up getting so interested...
...they work for many months on their lonely quest, become passionate about their story, and sometimes promise more than they can responsibly deliver. The latter must act as the voice of caution, tamping down enthusiasms and reining in excesses. At the Mercury News, Webb played his assigned part with gusto, but it's not so clear that the editors adequately performed theirs. Though Ceppos did not directly edit the story, he has taken responsibility...
Diners in other Houses praise the service with equal gusto...
...Harvard, I taught for a couple of years at Yale. My very first class was a lecture at 9 a.m. I was about halfway through when this enormous garbage truck pulled up next to the windows at the back of the lecture hall and began crunching, with great gusto, about five minutes' worth of garbage. I was a little rattled, but more or less shouted my way through until it left. It was not long before I discovered that the garbage collectors of New Haven made this particular stop regularly every Monday morning at the same time...