Word: gusto
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...Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga, in 1973.) The choice was made by the museum's director and by the Costume Institute's special consultant, Diana Vreeland, whose judgment it reflects. Says the legendary former editor of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, with the certitude and gusto that she has retained into her eighth decade: "Saint Laurent has been built into the history of fashion now for a long time. Twenty-six years is the proof that he can please most of the people most of the time four times a year. That's quite a reputation...
Alfonsin crisscrossed the country, delivering as many as three rousing speeches a day and plunging into crowds with gusto. Luder, by contrast, seemed reserved and drab, an uninspiring speaker who rarely raised his voice or waved his arms. Toward the end of the campaign, nervous Peronists resorted to pairing Luder with the visage and recorded speeches of Juan Peron in television spots...
...rather to dull one's sensibilities than to shock them. Likewise, Eddie's staggering feats of drinking become banal with repetition. Thankfully, vodka does not interfere with the lucidity of either his narration or his pain. Although he describes his own unhappiness and self-degradation with the same unsentimental gusto he might use on approaching a pot of hearty Russian cabbage soup, he never lets his explication of these problems degenerate into the murky themes of an alcoholic burp...
...always slanted in one way or another. Merely writing a single sentence imposes an arbitrary order on the flux of occurrence. An older school of historians, too long out of session, made a virtue of this necessity. Knowing that they could not help reshaping reality, they did so with gusto and exuberant style...
Watson was especially adept at motivating workers and inspiring loyalty. He personally commissioned a company songbook and led employee gatherings in numbers Like Ever Onward.* The song was belted out with gusto during get-togethers of the IBM 100% Club, made up of members who have met 100% of their sales goals for the previous year...