Word: gusto
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...attended Dwight prep school in New York City) and publicists’ assertions that they are überhip (“they dress as if the 1970s and the 80s fell into the same laundry hamper”), the five young band members proceed with unpolished, unpretentious gusto that fans and critics can’t get enough of. The five college dropouts, all under the age of 23, have been hailed by NME as “the Saviours of Rock and Roll,” lauded by Rolling Stone and mobbed across the sea by a slew...
...more than a couple passionate sentences in a whole volume of criticism? The few attempts at humor don’t really work; some jokes repeat themselves in different essays. And it all manages to be astonishingly devoid of gusto, even in its highest praise. In her “Letter to Borges’’ (1996)—a wise, charitable and admirable short work—she makes clear her affection for the man’s writing, but with no locutions less stiff than “I miss you?...
...gusto and talent. He’s very clever and he executes. He gets knocked around and he gets back up again. I love that type of player,” Kerr said...
...summer away from Boston, but also for the music. Some of us are musicians, some tone-deaf. The chorus of Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer” is never very melodious, but is belted out with a fair amount of gusto and no thought for intonation. And though we can now all sing along to at least a good portion of “Killer Queen,” a random survey of the staff would probably not yield the answer to the question, “Is this Holst or Shostakovich...
...evil wizard Aku to the distant future. So is the dialogue ("With the power of this sword, I will vanquish Aku!"). But even nonaction fans will be wowed by the art. Creator Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory) raids the history of illustration, art and cinema with the gusto of a kid playing in an attic. He gleefully cobbles past, present and future into a supercool fantasy of classical Japanese art, Hanna-Barbera, expressionism, anime, '60s film and '50s modernism, just for starters. (His dystopian future city looks like hell as designed by Charles and Ray Eames...