Word: piquantes
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...festivity of fireworks and live concerts in the Piazza del Popolo. Or you can book tickets for the New Year's Eve concerts at the Church of San Paolo Entro Le Mura. Just as in the other two greatest cities of Europe, the holidays in Rome offer a piquant blend of familiar pleasures in a not-so-usual time or place...
...rubbing it on the mother's teat. Various interactive exhibits encourage visitors to submerge themselves in the truffle habitat using all five senses. You can listen to forest sounds such as rain and crickets; feel the textures of truffles and pinecones; sniff woodland scents from sweetgrass to the piquant truffle itself; and taste a local truffle in season (for an extra...
...palate. To pick but three, he will reprise his wizardry in the just-wrapped sequel to the Merlin miniseries, be stalked as the husband of Susan Sarandon in the Melbourne-shot Irresistible, and speak in iambic pentameter (and play air guitar) as a disillusioned English politician in Yes. The piquant mix is typically Sam Neill. But as the closeted gay Sydney crime lord in the new Australian film Little Fish, his finish is almost unrecognizable. There's nothing remotely respectable about Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson, a character so crooked he seems straight. As the former lover of Hugo Weaving...
...capital of exuberant quirkiness, San Francisco municipal authorities agreed on a set of laws meant to codify the city's piquant urban character. The Downtown Plan, a radical and ambitious zoning scheme, will protect dozens of fine older buildings from demolition, severely restrict the amount and bulk of new highrise construction and virtually outlaw the modernist office block...
Bancroft got to exercise her hauteur in a few later films (The Turning Point, Agnes of God), but her longest and most piquant role was as wife, muse and keeper of Mel Brooks. They made an implausible, endearing couple: the crazy Brooklyn boy and the Bronx girl who, when they let her, could work miracles. --By Richard Corliss