Word: gusto
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...piece, freaky faggots named Griff (Robert Phillips) and Terry (William Smith), provide some of the nastiest screen violence so far this year. There's a brawl toward the end of the picture between McGee and one of the freaks that has not been matched, for pure furniture-smashing gusto, since Frank Sinatra took out after that Korean guy in The Manchurian Candidate...
...distinction is difficult to prove. For one thing, pornography has been a private enthusiasm, so that epochs of conservative outward rectitude, such as Victorian England, have produced lush undergrowths of erotica. And anyone who has ever attended a smoker with conservatives in, say, Prairie Village, Kansas, knows that the gusto for smut is nonpartisan. When he heard of the report, California Congressman John Rousselot, a conservative Republican, grumbled: "How did they determine it? I know they didn't interview...
When an actress appears in a long run she tends to lose her gusto. This is called getting stale. Once in a long while a performer appears who remains as fresh in the road company as she was on opening night. This is called Elly Stone. Oddly enough, in the early years of her career, Elly seemed a sure showbiz loser. In the '50s she sang her way cross-country with her first husband, an itinerant magician. They slept and nearly froze in a Kansas scrap-car lot; they lived on bananas in Florida; they starved; they split. Elly...
Taut and literate as Shaffer's entertainment is, it could have been merely another of those theatrical arabesques that fade as quickly as the footlights. Two things redeem it from such slickness. The stylish gusto of Baxter and especially of Quayle give the whole performance an edge that could cut glass. Moreover, Shaffer manages deftly to satirize the detective genre at the same time that he constructs a classic model of it. His satire brings out a hint of desperation behind the characters' capering. Ultimately his sport is directed against the games-playing mentality itself, with its retreat...
Died. Waldo Peirce, 85. American impressionist painter, a bewhiskered giant of a man noted as much for his exuberant life-style as for his bold, spontaneous art; of pneumonia; in Newburyport, Mass. Peirce lived with all the verve and gusto of his lifelong friend and traveling companion Ernest Hemingway, even to the point of taking four wives and running with the bulls at Pamplona. His splashy, sensuously colored paintings, said one critic, "smell of sweat and sound like laughter...