Word: gusto
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Camden's destitution lends its prosperous past an evanescent air, so starkly does it clash with the town of today. Up until 1945 or so, this city was a monument to the gusto and grit of a nation laboring to create itself. Camden built everything from battleships to toilet seats, and people here claim you could find more industry per capita in these nine square miles than anywhere else in the world. This was the home of the Victor talking machine, Campbell's soup and the Esterbrook pen. In the cavernous shipyards, 35,000 men once toiled, hammering out eight...
Nash, an actor and Adams resident who is Irish by birth, embarked with gusto on his reading, modulating his accent according to which character he was reading...
...Bolshoi's main problem, says Marina Nestyeva, an editor at the Moscow monthly Sovetskaya Muzyka, is that at a time when smaller, more venturesome troupes are springing up in the U.S.S.R., and even the rival Kirov Opera of Leningrad is showing new vitality, "they lack the gusto. They do too little, too slowly. Such immobility is simply impermissible these days." Critics take the dilapidated condition of the Bolshoi Theater (which also houses the equally straitened Bolshoi Ballet) as symbolic. Spots have darkened its walls; danger signs hang here and there; the sculpture of a chariot-borne Apollo on its roof...
...throw his beautifully beveled body into every scene, take direction conscientiously -- and when it comes time to promote the picture, press the flesh till fingers go numb. "Arnold loves being a movie star," says Ivan Reitman, his director on Twins and Kindergarten Cop. "He approaches the role with great gusto and charm. He is a throwback to the classic movie stars of the '40s, who were proud of their profession. If you're going...
Douglas' 1988 autobiography, The Ragman's Son, features a combination of gusto and raw intelligence. Dance with the Devil is reminiscent of those studio-bound productions with twice-breathed dialogue and a B-movie cast. If Kirk Douglas of Beverly Hills had worked only for directors like Danny Dennison, he could still be Issur Danielovitch of Amsterdam...