Word: gusto
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...story, written by Novelist Alberto Moravia, is a cheerful bit of babble, a tolerant spoof of the great game of guardie e ladri (cops and robbers), which many Italians play with a good-natured gusto all their lives. Sophia, the daughter of a prominent pickpocket (Vittorio De Sica), conies hippety-hipping up to a taxi one day with a couple of boy friends. They ask the driver (Roberto Mastroianni) to head for the beach. On the way, Sophia keeps breathing down the cabby's neck and crooning Bongo Bongo Bongo in his ear. At the beach he waits while...
...Morgan and David Loyd play the parts of the soldiers and suitors with gusto making the most of every movement. Don Alfonso is properly sententious expounding 18th century morals, although his voice occasionaly gets lost. Nancy Tricky as the more adventurous and less constant of the betrothed is charming with a pleasant touch of worldliness. Her counterpart Jacqueline Bezinet, however, at times makes the ridiculous even more ridiculous. She is a follower of the mouth stretching school of acting and her contortions tend unduly to travesty the text...
During last week's TV concert (finale of Dvorak's "New World" symphony), the doctors played competently and with gusto. And, for once, the program was not interrupted by the sudden departure of one of the oboists-an obstetrician...
...Marriage), with such Scala names as Caro Badioli, Eugenia Ratti, Graziella Sciutti and Giulietta Simionato -all first-rate singers but not of world reputation. The opera has been performed scores of times at La Scala (last in 1948), but in the vast house it never came across with such gusto, immediacy or subtlety. The press was as happy as the audience, and only a few backstage complaints about the cramped space kept the accolade from being unanimous...
...great writer's last book (he died at 80 before it was published), and certainly his most amusing. His picaresque hero, a life-charged confidence man, gave him a chance to poke fun at human folly, but with death so near, Mann had never shown such gusto for life...