Word: gustos
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...crash, the mythology surrounding Lawrence has cast him as the ultimate romantic adventurer. Counting on the draw of his legend to revive their flagging fortunes, the tourist authorities have inaugurated a series of Lawrence theme tours that follow in the footsteps of the man portrayed with equal measures of gusto and effeminate charm by Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, the classic 1962 David Lean film...
Nevertheless, Fitzpatrick showed plenty of gusto in relief of Harvard’s all-league QB, running a pair of naked bootlegs around left end for crucial first downs to ice the game on the Crimson’s final possession...
During the 2000 election flap, the G.O.P. needed somebody, in KATHERINE HARRIS' words, to hold Al Gore to "the letter of the law." And the then Florida secretary of state did so with gusto. This year she seems to have disobeyed both the spirit and the letter of the law herself. After she quit her job to run for Congress, she admitted to violating Florida election rules. It seems she sent her letter of resignation to Governor Jeb Bush Aug. 1, more than two weeks later than the rules called for. "I made a mistake in not filing a letter...
...After losing $1.4 million a day, it ended up dragging its parent company into bankruptcy, and buzzards from four continents have converged--among them Bertelsmann, Liberty Media, News Corp. and Sony--to pick at the carcass. In Italy, where stealing satellite service is pursued with the same ingenuity and gusto as is tax avoidance, two competing pay-TV services, Vivendi's Telepiu and News Corp.'s Stream, have fared so poorly that they have had little choice but to combine their 2.3 million subscribers. Two struggling Spanish providers of pay TV by satellite, SogeCable and Via Digital, are headed down...
...TIME Man of the Year Rudy Guiliani hawked his book, er, gave the opening night speech at BookExpo, at a huge cocktail party thrown by his publisher, Talk Miramax. Hizzoner's book, "Leadership," will be published in October. Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein introduced the former mayor with gusto. "I love reading!" declared Weinstein. "I love the smell of bookstores! I have a day job where people don't read...