Word: gusto
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...standstill down on the field, so Trevor amused himself by looking at the band. They were drinking and leching and trying to outblare their Big Red counterparts. The Cornell band played a Harvard band routine. The Harvard people hissed. The Harvard band played the same routine, with gusto and extraordinary flourishes. The Cornell band played it too. The Harvard band played the "Mickey Mouse Theme Song." The Cornell band followed. "Boy are they bush," grumbled a disgruntled voice two rows back. "What's the score?" asked Trevor. "Who knows?" three people said together...
...becomes a basis of the principal theme. The Scherzo is a study in contrast between the rough Landler, or peasant waltz, and the lyrical middle section. This movement was perfect: Mr. Mehta and the orchestra executed the transition between the rustic dances and smooth passages with full vitality and gusto--and absolute precision...
...through seven states. He helped to bring out the crowds in validation of a lingering family magic, warmed them up with some of the old self-deprecating one-liners ("It just shows what it is to have a famous brother-in-law"), and then introduced the candidate with a gusto that sometimes left McGovern in an uncomfortable backwash of anticlimax. In Pittsburgh, McGovern was practically bowled over by a woman who rushed up to Ted and cried, "Oh, Senator, we can hardly wait until 1976!" Then the woman apologized to McGovern and added: "But that's how we feel...
...reads to startled British shopkeepers such sentences as "My Hovercraft is full of eels" from a wildly mistranslated phrase book; a mob of old ladies, "Hell's Grannies," who terrorize London; an earnest competition for "Upper-Class Twit of the Year." These goonish concepts are executed with due gusto by Graham Chapman...
...Planet of the Apes) looked cheaper and more cursory than its predecessor, but thanks to some razzle-dazzle direction by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone), and most especially to the superb cinematography of Bruce Surtees, Conquest is the handsomest of the lot. It has the same storybook gusto and bizarre pageantry as the original. The setting is the America of 1991, when a mysterious virus has wiped out all household pets. Apes have taken the place of dogs and cats and have been trained to perform menial tasks (filing, sweeping up, waiting on tables). They are treated like...