Word: piquantly
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...show is replete with flaws but the chief one lies in the casting of Gigi. Hepburn brought an ethereal child-bride quality to all her roles, and that gave her Gigi a piquant flavor. Caron was a kind of wistful gamine, and that made her interpretation equally engaging in a different way. The current Gigi, Karin Wolfe, is a Barbie doll who has been programmed to sing, dance and fall in love with a chilling absence of presence Daniel Massey is also miscast as her suitor Gaston, a rich Parisian play-boy-about-town who discovers that little girl...
...streetwalkers, transvestites, dance halls, singles bars, homosexual joints and other attractions. What if a foreigner does not read German? No matter. Drawings, unmistakable in meaning and identifying each diversion, are appropriately placed on the map: a saucy girl clad only in G string and stockings always signifies a Scharfer (piquant) Striptease; a pert redhead beckoning from a window marks the site of every Bordellbetrieb (bawdyhouse); and two applauding tourists with drinks at hand of course designate what the map calls a Nightclub mit Show...
...explain the existence of so many otherwise great men of music (Horowitz, Stokowski, to name but two) among the ranks of failed Mozarteans? David Oistrakh is emphatically not one of them. His playing (that curvaceous tone especially) has a touch of the romantic, but not enough to tarnish the piquant bloom of youth that imbues all these works. Mostly, Oistrakh's way is a perfect blend of ingenious inner detail and simple, uncomplicated exteriors. That applies also to his viola playing in the Sinfonia Concertante (Son Igor takes the violin solo) as well as to his conducting...
...various rhetorical ploys that are the very breath of politics. That is the wry message of a new book called that pestilent cosmetic, rhetoric, by Sol Chaneles, a New York University sociologist, and Jerome Snyder, author-illustrator. In it they provide some updated definitions for classical rhetorical terms plus piquant examples from contemporary national politics...
...been amply proved in the past, Miss Welch's acting ability is greatly overshadowed by her endowments. Consequently, her thrashings and grimacings while being assaulted assume an air of piquant comedy. Nothing will do after being so shamed but for Miss Welch to ride out for revenge. This presents a problem since the scoundrels have swiped the horses as well as murdered her husband. The resourceful Raquel, of course, gets both a new mount and a new man in the person of a bounty hunter named Thomas Luther Price (Robert Gulp). Price takes her to Mexico and teaches...