Word: piquantly
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...skill at portraying those lives. With unsentimental care, her camera has focused over the past 13 years on homeless children, homesick exiles and struggling immigrants. Her first feature film, Salaam Bombay!, won awards at Cannes in 1988 and an Academy Award nomination. Her second, Mississippi Masala, a piquant love story about an Indian immigrant and a black American in the Deep South, is garnering warm reviews and a growing following. A film about the life of Buddha is in preproduction, and its $30 million budget certifies her arrival in the major leagues of moviemaking...
...surprisingly, the earliest, least familiar years of the century yield up the most piquant material. Billy Wilder recalls learning of the outbreak of World War I when his father ordered the afternoon entertainment in an East European coffee house to stop: "There will be no more music today. The Archduke Ferdinand has been just assassinated in Sarajevo." Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop describes getting a glimpse of Charles Lindbergh as he paraded up New York City's Fifth Avenue. The closer the series gets to present day, however, the more it overlaps with a hoard of other TV nostalgia...
...might have been expected, the French, who tend to be connoisseurs of other nations' foibles, provided the most piquant blend of sneering and scolding. "Since the arrival of the pilgrim fathers," said Le Monde in a front-page editorial, "America has never truly settled its account with sin. The old Puritan heritage periodically surges forth from the collective memory, invading the national life and upsetting the political game. But over time, these resurgences of prudery have grown in cruelty, bordering today on the absurd...
...jock (never mind the fact that the former Chair was an E.P.S. major) anxious to forge his political career to the senate as soon as possible. The typical UC representative is according to Michael Grunwald's Oct. 18 opinion piece, a power-hungry student just looking for some piquant victual to place on his c.v. Members fitting this description are the ones most likely to resign...
Whenever a news organ disciplines a reporter, cynics suggest that management is seeking a public relations gesture, a formal rooting out of sin. But the issue is the First Amendment bond with the public. Plagiarism imperils that bond, not because it involves theft of a wry phrase or piquant quote, but because it devalues meticulous, independent verification of fact -- the bedrock of a press worth reading...