Word: gusto
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Gilbert shaped the pastoralsounding second movement, marked Adagio, with exquisite care, and in the last two movements Loeb played octave and chordal passages with gusto: he had obviously prepared well. The audience, which filled only one-third of the hall, applauded heartily, and the ovation was well deserved...
...richly textured narratives, he told of cutting up with neighborhood characters like Old Weird Harold and Fat Albert, sharing a bed with his younger brother Russell, going to the hospital to get his tonsils out. No comic has ever entered a child's mind with so much empathy and gusto...
...good gossip, recounting Aly Khan's sexual techniques or a little joke Zsa Zsa Gabor played on a lover. But the book's main charm is the author's portrait of himself as Playboy, Second Class -- a man who had to hustle his own pleasures and did so with gusto...
...same time, Aksyonov discovers heroic all-beef patties (gamburgery, as Russians call them) and college students who tackle his Soviet-literature courses with gusto, as well as enough fellow immigrants so that he never has to feel insecure about his English. The transplanted jazz fan is disappointed to learn that his beloved music has been shouldered out of the marketplace by rock. But he gains a grudging, un-Marxist respect for the market itself. "The sad fact," he writes, "is that the human race has failed to invent a system of economic relations more natural than money." He even comes...
However, Thornburgh puts aside recent pressreports about his "testing the waters" for apossible 1988 presidential run, to talk about hisgoals at the IOP with gusto...