Word: gusto
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...wine list, and Diners' Club or Carte Blanche cards are honored. The Player's Choice, a restaurant on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip that claims to be "strictly soul," is jammed to the rafters each night with customers-90% of them white- dining with apparent gusto on such soul specialties as barbecued ribs and yams. Melvin's, a soul-food place in the heart of Boston's department-store district, is a popular luncheon spot for shoppers and a favorite meeting place for professional athletes, both black and white...
...biggest attractions last night was the B.C. crowd, which stood, clapped, heckled, and threw streamers with great gusto, exceeded not even by the boola-boola of Yale...
Even the Eli football heroes have lost their collegiate gusto. "This is not a rahrah bunch of boys," proclaims Yale coach Carmen Cozza and a silent, sterile locker room bears testimony to his observation. Boola-Boola is Bush league--Yale has gone professional...
...however, thinking about the subject of the play, which is a simplistic attack on American blood lust. Ranchman, played with great simian gusto by William Devane, is an accused rapist in police custody. A howling mob, which seems largely composed of teenyboppers, demonstrates throughout-half for him and half against him. A ratty prosecuting attorney introduces highly clinical and irrelevant evidence against him; the alleged rape victims-two women, a young girl and a boy-seem to have enjoyed every minute of the experience...
...posters, balloons and signs give a carnival gaiety to the street scenes; many billboards have been papered over to proclaim an Olympic theme: "Everything is possible in peace." Even the shantytowns look good. Inhabitants were given buckets of free paint, and they responded with a typically Mexican gusto. Some shacks wear bright stripes, others have blazing coats of lavender, green, or orange...