Word: piquant
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...piquant panee veal with fetuccini definitely deserves a sampling, but the shrimp etouffee is excessively soupy...
...other two works on the album also evoke Poe's haunted world. Conte Fantastique, a piquant harp concerto by Debussy's acolyte Andre Caplet, is based on the short story The Masque of the Red Death, and Schmitt's orchestral tone poem draws its inspiration from the poem "The Haunted Palace." Pretre gives each work a suitably atmospheric reading, emphasizing Debussy's gloom, Caplet's lightness and Schmitt's vigor...
...recitation. The exception to the awkwardness is Hughes, who as Cherubino portrays first a lively teenage boy, then a boy masquerading as a girl, with limitless aplomb and stage presence. Hughes' voice also provides some of the program's best moments, soaring effortlessly in an opening aria and a piquant love song to the Countess...
...Such piquant thoughts enchant partly by astonishment: Who else would say such things in print? The burden is one that Rooney gladly accepts. "I'm telling you all these things about myself not because I think you care about my problems, but it might interest you to translate them into terms of your own." If the author's gifts for home truth and Establishment-deflation are not in the same league with H.L. Mencken's attacks on American foibles, they are comfortable and well-worn. Rooney's humor is like that pair of old loafers...
...started," Charney says, "there wasn't even Betamax. There weren't any satellites. Now everything is coming together. Video is the place where TV, newspapers and books and photography and movies really meet." Charney's vid mag, the zippiest of the small field, suggests some piquant possibilities for reaching a wider audience. If snappy visuals can make the rag trade look exciting, consider what video could do with show biz. Variety on video could be the Ed Sullivan Show of the 1980s...