Word: gustos
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...France as a baby, grew up and was educated in Paris. She is unmarried, in her 30's. Unlike her younger brother Julian, who writes of the French, in French, with grim French realism, Author Anne Green has needed no translator, is no very grisly realist, has gusto, gayety, humor...
...Cavalieri married Tenor Lucien Muratore. Artist Bob erupted in a flood of murals. He designed stained glass windows, painted screens, covered the walls of tycoons' swimming pools and conservatories with a profusion of birds and beasts in brilliant dynamic color, all the while eating, drinking, living with gargantuan gusto. No one house was big enough for this titan. He bought three brownstone houses on East 19th Street, Manhattan, knocked them together and covered every inch of wall space with his own paintings. There are palm trees and parrots in the pantry, a dado of chimpanzees climbs up the stairs, round...
...things like this long ago, at the beginning of a career which up to that time had made it seem more likely that he would turn out a public charge than one of the famed Hamlets of his time. His manipulation of seltzer bottles and irresponsible lines has the gusto of reviving memories-a salute to Youth. Best shot: Barrymore describing the habits of the Scarab...
...tolerant second school. Mr. Leiber's settings and costumes often suggest a theatrical rummage sale; his supporting cast is apt to make up in exuberance what it lacks in finesse. But Mr. Leiber, with energy enough to play Hamlet, Macbeth and Shylock on successive nights, has also gusto enough to concentrate attention on himself, a worthy and gifted player. He sometimes skims his roles but never tortures them...
...Certainly I'd like tea!" cried Mrs. George Reed, and amid general laughter she slapped her hostess on the back, slapped with such gusto that Mrs. Seaton-Smith suffered shock, indignity, sued...