Word: gustos
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...widespread and undeniable celebration of the senses, from Picasso's "The Race" (painted in 1922, the same year as Ulysses and "The Waste Land") to Josephine Baker's Paris performances to the jazz rage of the 1920s and 1930's. Modernism brought with it a sense of sophisticated gusto. It seemed to whoop an uninhibited...
...whose parents had been killed in a car accident. Ruth loses no time in stating her lifelong position: "I came wrapped in a caul of darkness and anger into Elizabeth's kingdom." Her cousin is, in fact, a preternaturally good child, so Ruth cultivates meanness and petty thievery with gusto. She hides Elizabeth's favorite dolls and into adulthood wears her clothes on the sly. Elizabeth paints (skies only); Ruth toys with starting a publishing imprint (her first book would be a reissue of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary...
...these tracks are hardly enough to sustain this slight album (it only contains about thirty minutes worth of music). Could it be that Morrissey's morbid imagination is floundering because he's secretly found happiness? There's got to be some explanation for his lack of gusto on Your Arsenal. Too often, he doesn't even sound interested in his own dejection...
Davidson is equally entertaining as Zora, the one who wears the pants in the relationship. Although her exchanges with Adam tend to be less convincing than the rest of her performance, she plays her part with excellent timing and gusto, and her facial expressions are even funnier than some of her lines. She also creates a rapport with the audience, full of wide eyes and exasperated glances. Her character is ballsy and funny, the glue that holds the story together...
...pianoforte accompaniment and extensive lyrical passages. The long recitatives are unusually developed musical and dramatic expressions. Wilson's playing demonstrates a sense for the maximization of the evocative possibilities in these passages without transgressing the bounds of bathos. Combining with Watkinson's unfailing vocal agility and expressive gusto, this wrings every ounce of dramatic potential out of Haydn's already amply suggestive recitatives. The overall effect is that of an opera in miniature, and the arias are reminiscent of Mozart's writing for the countess in the Marriage of Figaro...