Word: pungents
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Will the more moderate, if still pungent Wallace have as much appeal as the old one? The issues this election year may not be going his way. Wherever the busing controversy flares up, he is helped. But the recession, the energy crisis, detente and the Middle East require more complex responses than Wallace is used to giving. His attacks on bureaucracy are popular, but then there is scarcely a presidential candidate who is not playing the same theme...
Reeves' pungent observations and equally pungent style do go down well with many colleagues, editors and even some critics who have panned the book...
...composer Aaron Copland. The ballet is a charming work which captures all of the joyful and apprehensive emotions of a young pioneer farmer and his bride-to-be in the Pennsylvania hills during the early part of the last century. The flavor of the mountain folk tradition is so pungent that one is nearly drawn to begin foot-stomping and hand-clapping...
Word Dance, the first bit, is slow and haphazard. The characters dance and freeze, and then one delivers a pungent one-liner. The jokes are not terribly funny (where did you get those big brown eyes and that tiny mind?) but pointless facial expression and vapid delivery don't help them...
...previous decades like the rumba. After 1961, when the U.S. suspended relations with Cuba, emigrant Latin musicians and mainland-born Puerto Ricans gradually fused their own style with elements of American rock, soul and especially jazz. The result was salsa's singing dances. They are a combination of pungent vocal melodies challenged by complex instrumental counterrhythms...