Word: gusto
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...Greater Gusto. To advocates of women's athletics, such victories are just a foot in the door of that last sanctum of male chauvinism, the locker room. Thanks to a growing interest in physical fitness and the well-publicized success of superstars like Billie Jean King, girls are taking up sports in increasing numbers and with greater gusto than ever before. Not that most of them want to compete with boys; the emphasis is still largely on single-sex athletic programs, with the opportunities for women expanded. In Dallas, almost 100 girls from six to 16 turned out last...
...soloists, unfortunately, were considerably less impressive than the choir. Both women soloists sang with wobbly gusto, though none too steady in pitch. Tenor Gartside sounded forced and dry while bass Hester, the best of the four, masterfully sang his solo at the beginning of the Agnus...
...January, when two men said to be members of the Symbionese Liberation Army were arrested for the murder of an Oakland school official, San Francisco's two major papers leaped on the story with classic gusto. The morning Chronicle and the evening Examiner share printing facilities but compete editorially. They fielded squads of reporters who day after day dug up leads linking the suspects to the crime...
...Brezhnev is not exactly a reluctant star. He does everything with gusto, exuding an earthiness and nervous energy that sometimes evoke comparisons with Lyndon Johnson. He is a natty dresser, tending to dark suits for day and blue suede jackets for informal wear. He can also be vain and demanding; he is the only Soviet leader to wear TV makeup. "He has a keen eye for that little red light on the TV camera," observes a U.S. official...
...closed, grim society of busted-down mavericks, with its own codes, its own language. The trouble is that the substance of his story is worn and without surprise, another brawny contest of strength and will between two scruffy cliches. Aldrich handles the violence of the story with the gusto of a born brawler piling into another fray. His best films (Kiss Me Deadly, Attack) have always shared a quality of almost surrealistic brutality. Since much of The Emperor of the North Pole has to do with great quantities of physical pain being meted out or endured, Aldrich makes the action...