Word: gusto
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...Cramps, the Fleshtones ransack almost everything in rock'n roll history from Little Richard and James Brown to Motown and "Nuggets" period psychedelic garage rock Vocalist Peter Zaremba--who on stage makes Mick Jagger look like Perry Como--yells his "yeah, yeah"s and "hey, hey"s with more gusto than anybody since the Kingsmen, and with just as much humor...
...religion, contraception, and the life of a waiter) have transformed the original Python tone of genial silliness to satire. But despite these signs of maturity, the group has evidently regained its comic fire--and the comedians roll around in their capacious subject matter with every bit of the old gusto and panache...
Flash and the Five sport a wardrobe that goes for a lot of "gusto," money, in straight talk, so their audience would be hard pressed for direct imitation. Like rapper talk, which pulls in language from such diverse sources as '40s hipster, '60s hippie and even cockney rhyming slang (Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn's crime-haunted Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, is "Do or Die"), rapper flash is eclectic. The jeans, the leathers, the heavy personalized belt buckles, even the jewelry, are modifications of street-gang uniforms. A lot of the aggressive energy that once went into street fighting...
Milwaukee's Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., now owned by the Stroh Brewery Co. in Detroit, puts more gusto into its corporate-event sponsorship than most companies. Its annual budget for such promotions runs to several million dollars, spent on such events as the ten-day New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival last spring, which featured 3,000 musicians, 300 music groups and nine stages, each with a Schlitz [ogo as a backdrop. Not so incidentally, 400,000 cups of Schlitz were sold. This year Schlitz foamed beyond local events and plunged into national rock-music promotions, including Fleetwood...
...accused De Lorean of lacking hubris. But from all the evidence, his life has been less devoted to piety than to speed and gutter. "I live on adrenaline," De Lorean said flatly 13 years ago, when he was a golden boy at General Motors. He was still grabbing for gusto last year: "A guy's gotta do what he's gotta do. We only pass this way but once." A few months ago, just when the FBI says he began planning his drug-dealing scheme in earnest, De Lorean told a group of sports car dealers: "We will do anything...