Word: pungents
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Though he has lived in and written about Spain for nearly 60 years, Brenan was an active member of the Bloomsbury group, and he is at his most pungent when he talks of writers and writing. Of modern verse he complains, "Sometimes I feel that there is a faraway country where much of the English poetry that is printed today was originally written. Our poets, without knowing the language well, translate it into that universal idiom known as translatese. Hence its lack of poetic rhythm, its inability to leave the ground. And when our poets do know how to write...
...comes The Flounder, a long, magnificent passage of wind, a pungent humanizing of the past and present in which the Weltgeist (world spirit) is a talking fish, a warty, cunning creature with a crooked mouth and two freakish eyes on one side of its doormat body. This turbot, as it is called on the Continent, is also a male chauvinist who echoes one of the two main themes of the book: the eternal power struggle between men and women. The other persistent melody, the importance of cooking and nutrition in history, is in the tasty flesh of the flounder itself...
...such is the charm of Moses Wine, and the curiosity of those he encounters in his search, that one does not feel like complaining too heartily about this matter, especially when Dreyfuss and the rest of the cast play so well, and Director Kagan finds so much that is pungent and fresh in that most overused of movie locations, Los Angeles...
...kitchen stove, who should shuffle in and plop into his favorite armchair but old Da himself (Barnard Hughes)? Only to be followed by Young Charlie (Richard Seer), Charlie's teen-age self; Mother (Sylvia O'Brien); and Drumm (Lester Rawlins), a dour early employer given to pungent maxims: "Marriage is the maximum loneliness with the minimum of privacy." The play proceeds by anecdotes and episodes, some funny, some sad, all telling. Leonard makes the pas sage of time itself a major character in Da. What time does for Charlie is to make him realize that what he yearns...
American Buffalo. A fiendishly curious ear for language and a trio of pungent and hilarious characters earned David Mamet the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play...