Word: pungently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, the ultrachic restaurants of America were almost exclusively French. Today, on the smart streets of Manhattan, Washington, Chicago and Beverly Hills, three-star cafes are filled with the pungent aromas of Naples and Bologna. Pasta vincit ora/na/Not only the familiar, plebeian spaghetti, macaroni and ravioli, but more than 150 forms of Mediterranean batter, from agnolotti to ziti, have landed in fancy dress on elegant menus. Indeed, just about everywhere, restaurants and cooking schools dedicated to those al dente squares and rounds and ribbons of pearly paste are subverting meat-and-taters America. Exclaims Master Cook James Beard...
...smaller roles, Richard Grusin and Shirley Wilber also deliver telling, pungent performances. Seen most recently as Zoditch in the A.R.T. production of Journey of the Fifth Horse. Grusin demonstrates here his ability to play a balding, affected, overweight Hollywood producer as well as a sour old reader in a 19th-century Russian publishing house. As the mother, Wilbur is appropriately fussy and matronly: Her high nasal whine sounds very good...
Blessing gives his characters a pungent flavor. Old John Law (Ray Fry), a legendary pitcher who is being honored, is a laconic curmudgeon who seems to hate baseball now and to have loathed the fans in his days of glory. Add on: the whisky-swigging, pot-bellied manager (Frederic Major), the clubhouse clown (William McNulty), the Hispanic outsider Jesus Luna (Dierk Toporzysek) and the multi millionaire superstar (Mel Johnson...
...more than that, the constant challenge of finding that one sale among the swamp of slams, polite hang-ups and pungent swearing sessions became addictive. It was a game between two voices, two personalities, two frames of mind...
...biggest asset--and problem. The people who read the Daily News are, for the most part, the stable, ethnic families who live in New York's outer boroughs--the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. For years, this represented a solid constituency, and the News served it well, with pungent, readable prose, catchy headlines and cranky, right-wing editorials. And the public responded; "Da Nooz," as it is popularly known, achieved the largest circulation of any paper in American history, selling 2.3 million copies everyday...