Word: gusto
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...write during reading period. If you don't, I'll give you an assignment. If you're going to be boring and do all those "academic" things during the next few days, you can ignore the rest of this column. I'm only talking to those fun-loving, gusto-grabbing guys and gals...
...modernist mountain-Matisse at 80 with his colored cutouts, the last paintings of Cézanne, Monet's lily ponds. That sense of exaltation, of a long life resolved and its aesthetic structures made luminously explicit, is missing. Instead, we get a lot of dash and gusto, a polymorphous, ill-focused energy. It is enjoyable, and even tonic. But these are not likely to be the paintings that fix de Kooning's place in history...
...story worthy of the thousand and one Arabian nights, and the British press played it with grisly gusto. ROYAL FAMILY KILL PRINCESS WHO ELOPED was the headline in the Observer, which spurred competing papers into ferreting out the lurid details. According to first reports, the tragic story involved a Saudi Arabian princess called Misha who married a commoner, thereby incurring the wrath of her princely grandfather; she was shot and her husband beheaded. Leading the Fleet Street pack was the Daily Express, which published some blurry pictures that purported to show the beheading of Misha's lover, taken...
...hobby; it can be an art. Few events can provide the communion to be enjoyed over a well-laid table. A soul-and palate-satisfying meal is no occasion for guilt or gluttony. Au contraire. Let us all recite, after grace, the litany of that elegant guru of gusto M.F.K. Fisher Art of Eating...
...Eating by M.F.K. Fisher (Random Vintage; $5.95 paper). Few people have written about the subject with greater gusto and poesy than this California woman who has become a cult figure among gastronomes...