Word: gusto
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...memoirs (My Young Years; Knopf; $10), Rubinstein recalls the moment with gusto and some dismay...
...paintings that have earned him a reputation as France's most eminent living artist as well as its official culture scourge. The three decades of his output now displayed in an enormous retrospective at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum resemble a strip-mining operation. With indefatigable and clamorous gusto, Dubuffet has chewed up whole tracts of land once thought to be outside culture...
...times had changed-and so had Time Inc. Elson skillfully develops the contrast between the innocent gusto with which its magazines threw themselves into the war effort after Pearl Harbor, and the gradually chastening complexities of postwar and cold-war politics. In his last years, Luce, the author of The American Century, worked hard to alter the more simplistic aspects of his patriotism. The result was a more universal theme for his last crusade: the American support and promotion of international law. It was the natural extension of his editorial conscience...
...years, U.S. companies have been expanding overseas with Napoleonic gusto, swallowing up local firms from Stockholm to Singapore. Now a counterthrust is gathering momentum. European and Japanese businessmen are beginning to see the U.S. as a vast market ripe for exploitation; they are rushing to open Stateside banks, factories and distribution centers...
...film's 62 minutes. The film's heroine, he noted, demonstrated a "swordswal-lower's fascinating faculty for fellatio," and camera angles were "directed toward maximum exposure...during the gymnastics, gyrations, bobbing, trundling, surging, ebb and flowing, eddying, moaning, groaning and sighing, all with ebullience and gusto...