Word: piquantly
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...addition of the orchestra is a qualifiedboon. While the full richness of Puccini'sinstrumental color heightens the opera's dramaticeffectiveness, the playing is unforgivablyunkempt. The score's dense texture of overlappingdance rhythms is frayed by sloppy articulation.Some highly suspect intonation adds extra spice toPuccini's already piquant harmonies. Inparticular, the exuberance of the dance scene inthe second act is somewhat dampened by theconfusion...
...getting in the gossip columns lately; they've also been getting better. Their 1992 debut album, Ooooooohhh ... on the TLC Tip, sold almost 3 million copies but was instantly forgettable. CrazySexyCool features slinky singing, bouncy beats and grabby rap interludes, and the vocals are stronger and the melodies more piquant than those on the first album. Several songs stand out, including Creep, a slightly jazzy dance number, and the delicately saucy Red Light Special, a love song written by Babyface (who has composed recent hits for Boyz II Men and Madonna...
...gossip columns lately; they've also been getting better. Their 1992 debut album, Ooooooohhh ... on the TLC Tip, sold almost 3 million copies, but it was instantly forgettable. CrazySexyCool features slinky singing, bouncy beats and grabby rap interludes, and the vocals are stronger and the melodies more piquant than those on the first album. Several songs stand out, including Creep, a funky, slightly jazzy dance number, and the delicately saucy Red Light Special, a love song written by the ubiquitous Babyface (who has composed recent hits for Boyz II Men and Madonna...
...fixture among cinephiles in Berkeley, California, where her criticism appeared in the form of program notes, radio reviews, screeds in the local film magazine. She couldn't have been further out of the loop -- the double helix, really, that embraced Hollywood movies and Manhattan media -- so she devised a piquant strategy for being heard: she would go to a movie and review the audience. Sometimes she'd review the reviewers, a tactic that led to slams on the New York Times' Bosley Crowther and epochal tussles over the auteur theory with the Village Voice's Andrew Sarris. Not until Kael...
...perhaps Schami has the last laugh. He knows just what he is doing. As he says, "Lies and spices are brothers and sisters. Lies turn any bland fare into a piquant delicacy. The truth and nothing but the truth is something only a judge wants to hear." He fibs about Syria; he shamelessly serves up his heritage, re-seasoned for Western palates while still claiming authenticity, and passes his work off as a critical development in fiction. To quote the blurb on the back cover: "Slyly oblivious to the Western cartographies of narrative art and faithful only to the oral...