Word: piquantes
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...years following The Rite, Stravinsky narrowed down to spare and unusual combinations of instruments and voices. Les Noces, composed between 1914 and 1917, was scored for four vocal soloists, chorus, four pianos and percussion. In 1918 came L'Histoire du Soldat, piquant, freeze-dried chamber music for seven players. Works like Pulcinella (1920) and The Fairy's Kiss (1928), based on themes of Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky, crowned Stravinsky's neoclassical shift away from the Dionysian revels of his youth. Oedipus Rex (1927) and Apollon Musagètes (1928) eloquently confirmed not only a new sobriety and austerity...
...pianist-has a flair for handling big and complicated structures without losing what the pop world would call the big beat. His writing for the piano is flamboyant, excitingly splashy but tamed by good taste. The expertise of his orchestral writing is remarkable-bold blocks of brass sound, piquant wisps of woodwind, supple simplicity in the strings. Perhaps the most important thing about his composition is that he has dared to opt for tradition over "now" chic: the idiom is tonal and reflects the post-romantic passions of the early 20th century...
Self-deprecators are often disillusioned romantics, and Candice is no exception. A true Fitzgerald fan, she makes herself weep in films by thinking of Zelda. And like a good Fitzgerald heroine, she has an otherworldly attitude toward beauty, wealth and success. Enchanted dreams are more piquant than fulfilled realities, after all. "My favorite fantasy is Snow White," she muses. "The guy comes riding up on his white charger, and they play, Some Day My Prince Will Come, and I just go crazy. In real life, the guy comes up on his white horse and has terrible acne. The fantasy...
...scared not to read Women's Wear. We are influenced by it?everybody in fashion is." So are some 10,000 other readers outside the industry, who are fascinated by WWD's piquant brew of gossip, profiles, trendy tips and incisive reviews. Eleanor Lambert, fashion's foremost publicist, is no particular fan of Women's Wear, and vice versa. Still, she feels that the paper "has the same impact as Walter Winchell once did. Winchell humanized the theater and let people see glimpses of human foible behind the scenes. Women's Wear has done the same to fashion. The press...
...titillate advance publicity. Felice Gordon, for instance, in The Pleasure Principle looks into the bed and bored accommodations of a beautiful and renowned American widow now wed to a Greek shipping magnate. Attractive Lois Gould, widow of a New York newspaperman, has created that city's most piquant putative roman a clef in years by writing her first novel about the wife of a New York art director who discovers that most of her girl friends loved her dying husband both too wisely and too well...