Word: piquant
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...Angels (adapted from the French of Albert Husson by Sam & Bella Spewack) makes a very enjoyable evening of an always piquant theme. It tells how three badmen-convicts, in fact-become the good angels of a sadly harassed household. The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas Day the temperature graciously drops to 104°, and where convicts can not only hire out but apparently never have to report back. The Messrs. Fixit of My 3 Angels are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from...
...what was called the stile antico, a restrained contrapuntal style used in orthodox church music. Giovanni Gabrieli's dazzling Symphoniae Sacrae combined elements of both the Renaissance splendor of Venice and the Baroque love o the spectacular; finally, a number of chansons by Lassus, Arcadelt, and Regnard exemplified the piquant secular songs of the period...
Criticism of Lords of the Press quite naturally interests us, even if we are only local baronets in the trade. The past few months have been especially piquant, therefore, thanks to the charges and breast-beatings that have swirled across the nation in the wake of some of the worst journalism ever seen during an election year...
Loeillet's Sonata in C major featured Alfred Mann's flawless playing of the recorder. But the biggest applause-getter of the evening was the Sonata for 'cello and harpsichord by Francoeur. The piece is full of piquant melodies, and despite the intricate finger work, Mayes handles his unwieldly instruments as if it were the size of a small banjo...
...lithe figure in skin-tight satin, she followed up her folk song with some smoldering blues ("Bury me where he passes by"), switched to a playful chant for "I want to be evil and cheat at jacks," then to the piquant for a French number. Whatever Eartha chose to give them, the crowd paid her back with devout attention. Her nightclub act was proving just as much a hit as her Broadway debut last month in New Faces of 1952, which drew from the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson the fervent report: "Eartha Kitt not only looks incendiary...