Word: pungents
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...harsh but affectionate, exacting but forgiving, an aging beach comber sifting through the wreckage of his life for those few irreducible fragments of value that might justify it. He gets a surprisingly strong boost from David Hemmings, the onetime hip photographer in Blow-Up, who here turns in a pungent character portrayal as a local hanger-on equally devoted to Hudson...
...questions kept coming through the long Saturday afternoon, cogent and corny, pungent and piquant. Some dealt with matters as personal as the cost of spectacles, a burial site, a veteran's benefits denied; others with issues of national debate and world policy...
Playwright Charles Fuller has paid his debt to Weaver handsomely by fleshing out the narrative with vivid character portraits and pungent humor. The strongest portrayal, by Douglas Turner Ward, is that of Sergeant Major Mingo Saunders. A 25-year veteran, Saunders has a passion for the regular army in the same way that a priest or an artist is called to his vocation. Ward sensitively conveys the intimate, though difficult burden of an NCO, who must understand the hurts and fears of his men, yet main tain a spit-and-polish discipline to steel each soldier for the fierce ordeal...
Like the coffee or tea break in the West, the perekur is one of the favorite indulgences of Soviet workers, a time set aside for them to light up their favorite smokes. Older Russians usually prefer a cigarette called papirosa-a pungent blend of black, sun-cured tobacco with a hollow paper mouthpiece. Younger Russians tend to smoke a Western-style (though stronger than U.S. brands) filter tip. Despite all the evidence linking it with lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory ailments, smoking has been rising steadily in the U.S.S.R. Alarmed by this threat to the nation's health...
...Munching pungent Polish sausage (heavy on the onion sauce) at a county fair, he can talk knowingly about the fine points of a champion steer because he has done some gentleman farming. In the predominantly Democratic Pittsburgh district that has elected him three times, Heinz, an Episcopalian, gets on well with blue-collar ethnic families. He de-emphasizes the G.O.P. label and tries to come across as an independent who cares enough about working-class problems to vote occasionally against Republican Administration positions. Two weeks ago, for instance, he voted to override President Ford's veto...