Word: pungents
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Among the many pleasures of Bob Woodward's The Agenda -- besides the detailed accounting of endless White House budget disputes -- are the pungent, frequently catty descriptions of the principals (many presumably supplied to Woodward by colleagues). See if you can match these Administration figures with their Agenda characterizations...
...most pungent cultural spillage from the early death of any rock star -- of Buddy Holly or Ritchie Valens, Jim Morrison or Sid Vicious -- may be the movie made from his life. Producers paw through old press clippings, take a quick snort of the current zeitgeist, tack on a note of mythical tragedy and voila!, a tale for our time with a hit sound track guaranteed...
...explores the Eastern and Western concepts of honor and duty as they play out in Kai's relations with his family, in a romance with an Asian- American heiress and especially at West Point, where Kai is recruited to uncover a cheating scandal. These plots never intersect, but with pungent humor and a subtle working of the themes of his title, Lee still manages to combine them into a powerful coming-of-age story...
...small, grassy park dedicated to Greek and Irish immigrants, Joe Cogliano, whose grandparents were Italian, sells mangoes to Hispanic customers from the back of his truck. Children play tag while chattering in Spanish on O'Brien Terrace, part of a housing project built in 1939 for Irish laborers. The pungent odor of Vietnamese fish sauce fills a Southeast Asian restaurant where Giavis' Greek grocery once thrived for more than 70 years...
...favorite themes of cultural fusion and displacement. And a lot of people can pronounce it. "When I made my first film, 'Jama Masjid Street Journal,'" says Nair, "people couldn't say the name and I hated that." Content to make mouths hiss and burn with "Mississippi Masala"'s pungent melange of African, Indian, and American identities, she prefers to leave tongues untwisted...