Word: gusto
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...grievances is long. Almost all land expropriated from big landlords under the 1952 land-reform program has been returned and the peasant occupants dispossessed. Trade unions, smashed in the revolution, have been allowed only a slight comeback. A dozen police organizations use third-degree methods with as much gusto as the Communists ever did. Old-fashioned banana-republic corruption taints the government clear...
...whole cast enters with gusto into the spirit of the piece and seems to have a whale of a good time gamboling through the romp and missing none of its facetious facets. Jerome Kilty is superb in the title role of the earthy master of "the gentle craft" who eventually becomes Lord Mayor of London. It is one of those rich character parts that Kilty has made his specialty. The role further contains what is perhaps the largest repertory of oaths and insults ever assembled (mostly hurled at the cobbler's poor wife); Kilty manages to make them sound like...
...directing Henry, Douglas Seale has exploited the set's physical advantages to the limit. He stages the battles with uninhibited gusto, now sending his soldiers leaping into the audience, now bringing them onstage with ladders to scale the besieged fortress. He takes care, it seems, to avoid having his characters leave the stage by the same exit any two times during the evening. Indeed, Seale has probably been too assiduous in filling the background of each scene with two or three people leaning against posts or draped over railings; this often gives an artificial, posed effect. But in general Seale...
...King & I. Unfortunately, the same lack of inhibition that lent the gusto of irresponsibility to a natural raconteur has made nonsense of the notion that Miller is a philosopher and a sage. Not to all, however. There are those to whom state ments such as "In America, the artist is ever an outcast, a pariah" do not read like something misprinted on a card given out in a gypsy tearoom. Indeed, there are those-and Alfred Perles. is determined not to be the least-to whom such words, from Miller's larynx, "make one think of cathedral bells...
...much trouble as his subject matter (a village funeral, peasant stone breakers, farm women winnowing wheat) was his own self-centered swagger and robust peasant's appetite. One of his favorite painting subjects was himself (see cut). He accepted an admirer's praise by assenting with gusto, "I paint like le bon Dieu." A sturdy, black-bearded bohemian, Courbet would sit up drinking until dawn, once on a trip to Munich defeated 60 Bavarians in a four-day drinking bout. His taste in female models (many of whom became his mistresses) was equally gargantuan...