Word: gusto
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...retains a clarity and fury that animates each line. The tribes of the Bible leap from the page; the victims of mass murder speak out after decades of silence. Immigrants to the New World, exiles of the U.S.S.R., crack jokes at the devil and embrace the present with a gusto that belies their wretched past...
...Little Gusto. The U.N. itself could hardly be accused of approaching the conference with gusto. Only $2 million was allotted for Mexico City, compared with well over $3 million for last year's World Population Conference in Bucharest. Conceded Helvi Sipila, 60, a Finnish lawyer who is the U.N.'s secretary-general for the International Women's Year: "There has not been much enthusiasm for the year"-which is hardly surprising since the U.N. is a predominantly male organization. Women account for only 8% of the delegates to the current General Assembly...
...conducts. Only the pencil she is again using as a baton distinguishes her from the rest of the cast. Gratto, the director, is seated in the semicircle with the chorus. She is filling in for several sopranos who are out with the flu and she makes up with gusto and expression whatever she lacks in vocal range...
...Eighth Symphony. Hugh Wolff once again proved to be a conscientious conductor, sensibly placing music before histrionics. The orchestra was well-disciplined and seemed well-rehearsed. But one could not forget that the Bach Society is, after all, a student organization. While the forte tutti sections were played with gusto, the subtleties of phrasing, slight accentuations, and nuances in dynamics were never quite made apparent, for fear of sacrificing precision and ensemble. This was also a problem in the pianissimo sections and during some of the solo and chamber passages...
...were all rented for the occasion, as camouflage. The evidence on-screen strongly suggests that The Klansman was made pseudonymously by the Snopes family, trying to cash in on the cracker-violence genre pioneered by Walking Tall. Come to think of it though, The Klansman lacks that certain Snopesian gusto. All it has is a drag-tail rankness. ·Jay Cocks