Word: gusto
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Making a shambles of the Stork Club or hanging over the side of a building from a fire hose, O'Toole chews up the scenery with the gusto and relish that only British actors seem to possess. Of course, precious few crumbs are left for the rest of the cast to nibble on. They manage as best they can, but they simply don't triumph over the material. It's hard to pass judgement on Mark Linn-Baker; the timorous quality of his nice-Jewish-boy persona seems to have been written into the script, and there's little that...
...right crowd, though, drinking games continue to draw as much support as some football games "I used to get my physical activity playing intramurals," one Harvard freshman said, "but now I get my gusto from drinking games...
...change his spots," he says. "The people of Arkansas knew he was using them. He thought he could fool them and spend his time advancing his own career." White's proudest achievements as Governor have been his reorganization of the state's vocational schools and his gusto for capital punishment. "I've set 22 execution dates," he declares. "Clinton wouldn't set any execution dates." White is riled by a federal court ruling that a state law he signed, requiring public schools to teach "creation science," was unconstitutional...
...being successfully and utterly someone else: a Trappist monk, a doctor of psychology, a dean of philosophy at a small Pennsylvania college, a law student, a surgeon in the Royal Canadian Navy, a deputy warden at a prison in Texas. Demara took the protean itch and amateur's gusto, old American traits, to new frontiers of pathology and fraud...
...important element in the production's success is Conductor Riccardo Chailly, 29. Ignoring the dry, detached school of Stravinsky playing that has sprung up in the U.S., Chailly lit into the music with true Italianate gusto. Unfortunately, the mediocre international cast of mostly non-English speakers ensured that the English libretto was a blur...