Word: piquant
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...handling is deft-by turns serious and piquant. Concerned that his years of "erotic acrobatics" are drawing to a close, the silver-maned Sears reflects: "When in the movies he saw a man and woman kiss ardently he would wonder if this was a country tomorrow or the day after he would be expected to leave." Then, a mere few weeks later. Sears finds himself leaving for work in the morning--he is a computer company executive--without his boxer shorts for the sake of reaching nakedness in record time for an afternoon frolic. On another occasion Sears ruminates...
...when it suits his expressive purposes. The French influence on him is strong, as befits a prize pupil of Nadia Boulanger; the opening chords of the Louisiana Story suite might have been harmonized by Ravel. But whatever the style, the music is always unmistakably Thomson's: attractively urbane, piquant, eminently civilized...
...dish meal for all seasons, with all seasonings. Anna Teresa Callen, an Italian-born cookery writer and teacher who raises her dough in Manhattan, has the pie squared. In The Wonderful World of Pizzas, Quiches and Savory Pies (Crown; $14.95), she leads a cook's tour of pastry, piquant fillings and their origins. Some of her recipes inevitably show up in other books, but usually in different forms. Callen's version of pounti, the prune-and-ham pie from France's Auvergne, for example, differs in important respects from Anne Willan's formulation, and both...
...throughout journalism, but the Agronsky show was a special embarrassment. Agronsky polled his four television panelists: Would they have passed along the rumor, as the Post had, that Blair House was bugged while the Reagans were staying there before the Inauguration? A chorus of nos. What made the poll piquant was that aside from TIME's Hugh Sidey, all of the panelists (James J. Kilpatrick, Carl Rowan, George Will) are columnists in the Post, and the Agronsky show itself is owned and produced by the Washington Post Co. Such mumbling in the ranks might comfort those who worry that...
...would have made only one change: they would have supplied a piquant biography. Color, however, is not wanted in a royal bride. Indeed, several earlier candidates for the Prince's chosen were dropped from competition because they had been rather too brightly painted in shades of scarlet. One, Fiona Watson, was discovered to have posed deshabille for Penthouse. Another, Davina Sheffield, was scratched after a former swain mouthed off about their life together. Perhaps a double standard should be etched into the royal coat of arms. "I wonder how the British people would react if they knew the extent...