Word: pungently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catherine Deneuve ménage-Catherine herself, Good Friend Marcello Mastroianni, their baby daughter Chiara, and Christian, 9, Catherine's son by former Good Friend Roger Vadim-all out for a Sunday stroll. Catherine rarely talks about her private life, but in the current Pageant, she offers some pungent opinions: "Men are real Arabs. All men. They want to keep women submissive. Even the best of them. I really think it's in the blood. I myself happen to be for free love. I have absolutely no regret and no shame regarding any relationship I have ever...
SIMON'S AUDIENCE that Thursday afternoon was the most genteel I'd ever seen at the Lowell Lecture Hall (where only six days previously Mr. Mailer had regaled a rowdy bunch with pungent braggadocio). Strike activities and riot scares had daunted all but the most dyed-in-the-silk aesthetes amongst undergrads. Professors and their wives dominated the thirty present, along with scattered unafilliated ladies. But Smiles of the Summer Night--Simon's subject for the day--is the most polite of Bergman's films...
...road to Sebring is lined with dead armadillos crushed by hot-rods headed for the race, speeding through pungent clouds of orange-blossom fragrance. On either side are expansive, marshy pastures, dotted with browsing brahma bulls and heifers. There are other signs of the area's normal atmosphere -the Sebring without gears. On the town's outskirts sit neatly tended villages of mobile homes and shuffleboard courts. Sebring is middle Florida, where the air is clean and dry, and the main profession is retirement...
...form applies equally to his action. What really counts for power, in the action and comedy both, is that each speech shall genuinely grapple with the one before--by rebuke, question, contradiction, or misunderstanding--all this with a view of building up in a few minutes to a pungent, funny and recognizable human situation. Every step must be swift, unforced, and in itself worth hearing. The actor has to infuse his couples with a skillful variation of tone and inflection to bring this off. When he is successful, the dialogue attains the bellylaugh level and is made all the more...
...personal qualifications to become an extremely effective popular leader. He is gregarious, highly emotional and remarkably attuned to the needs and moods of his supporters. He has an uncanny ability to remember names and faces. Mujib is also a spellbinding orator with a simplistic message and a pungent, fervent style...