Word: gusto
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...football will continue to be played, and with gusto. For Kent Waldrep, however, the game won't go on. Last Saturday wasn't just another loss, something he could shake off by mid-week. It's just sad, pure and simple, that a young man has been so severely incapacitated while trying to carve out his own bit of gridiron glory...
...grammar into the molds of sonnet, quatrain and blank verse. His chief experiments in Thank You, Fog are with verbs. Poets who write in English, he tells us in one of his "Shorts," "can very easily turn nouns, if we wish, into verbs." He proceeds to do so with gusto, not only to nouns but almost every unit of syntax he can get his hands on. Some examples from a single new poem, "Archeology:" "vacancied long ago," "man...has always graved his dead," "what disastered a city," "though gluttoned on sex/And blanded by flattery," "not that all rites should...
Perhaps every good young writer should be allowed a book like this one. Still it is a notable disappointment. Three years ago, McHale published two exhilarating novels in quick succession: Principato and Farragan's Retreat. In both he revealed wild comic gusto, a youthful, vengeful rage at certain vagaries of the Roman Catholic Church, and a visceral knowledge of middle-class Irish and Italians around Philadelphia and the Jersey shore. McHale was never a stylist; he made up in energy what he lacked in elegance...
...misfortune. Gould inhabits some sort of foggy half-world of the hard scuffle, keeping company with a couple of soft-core hookers who serve beer and Fruit Loops for breakfast. Segal likes the style, likes the dead-end quality of the life, and he leaps into it with gusto. Winning is the best way to work out of melancholy, but once Segal and Gould hit big, they crap...
...Walking Tall wielding a baseball bat and busting heads. Here, as a Hong Kong soldier-of-fortune, he betrays an enthusiasm for breaking glass, either by shattering windshields with a two-by-four or hurling people through skylights. He performs all these feats with a great deal of gusto, but no finesse. He is fortunately not called upon to perform acupuncture, or to receive...