Word: impishness
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...Loeb production of Facade is a liberating and refreshing change from conventional theatre, and though Sellars' zaniness is occasionally only cosmetic, he more than makes up for it in his irresistable imagination and impish originally...
...Apennine peninsula as a way of exacting revenge for sullied national honor. The cause of all the indignation was what Italians saw as an outrageous cultural slight. It came from Japan, of all places, and was aimed at one of the most beloved of 19th century Italians: the impish little wooden marionette Pinocchio...
...little has changed, that these idealists will never put their dreams into effect. Only their hope for a future world will sustain them. And a shot of Jonah in 1980, a small boy scribbling on a now-faded mural of the lunatic group, confirms that hope--he turns an impish smile to the camera, his rosy cheeks promising that somehow the future may be different...
...rubbing himself on my ankles as I write. I'm lunching in the kitchen of the local cafe. Not much of a kitchen really--it has only a sink, a gas kahve cooker [the so-called Turkish coffee which the Turks generally forego in favor of tea], and an impish and affectionate Turk to go with it, four cracked plaster walls, and a swarm of flies. But boy, am I happy. [The kitten with the black nose is now pulling at my sandal strap.] I came here absolutely famished after exploring a slab of rock that once supported a Byzantine...
...notion that people-even the French-can enjoy a memorable meal that contains only 500 calories instead of the 3,000 or more that tradition demands. No longer, as the old adage had it, need a Frenchman dig his grave with a fork. The blasphemer is an impish, outgoing, pint-sized ex-pastry chef named Michel Guérard, 42, who has invented la cuisine minceur-the cuisine of slimness...