Word: piquantly
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...questions kept coming through the long Saturday afternoon, cogent and corny, pungent and piquant. Some dealt with matters as personal as the cost of spectacles, a burial site, a veteran's benefits denied; others with issues of national debate and world policy...
...Williams and Phil Spector. If Streisand and Peters condescend to the music, they graciously allow rock audiences the chance to cheer for true genius. A concert sequence, where the debuting Barbra brings a hostile rocker audience to their feet with the wonder of her funkiness, is a milestone of piquant absurdity, equivalent, perhaps, to having Kate Smith conquer Woodstock...
Died. Gilbert Ryle, 76, British philosopher and editor of the journal Mind (1948-71); after a stroke; in Whitby, England. Ryle, who taught at Oxford for 44 years, was a prolific writer with a fresh, piquant style. A linguistic analyst in the tradition of Wittgenstein and A. J. Ayer, he maintained that the true role of philosophy was to clarify, by closely examining the ways in which words were used. In his best-known work, The Concept of Mind (1949), Ryle held that the mind should not be viewed as operating separately from the body, like a "ghost...
Boston's second annual Book Affair for small publishers is taking place at Harvard this year, and spare space may be the most non-controversial explanation for this location. The event is commercial but no one involved seems to expect a lot of sales, just attention and piquant exchange...
...course, there are minor disappointments--probably due to lack of money rather than lack of talent. The scenery for the opening act in Fairyland looks fourth grade-ish: it consists of three huge white bedsheets painted green and hung as sylvan backdrops. The other set, though--Joe Mobilia's piquant idea of what the Houses of Parliament look like is much better, though whether Rarry or Pugin would recognize it is a good question...