Word: spicing
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...India, productions of Kathakali cause audiences to curse the bad guys (red-bearded) and cheer the good guys (green-faced). Broadway audiences were less demonstrative but found that the blood-and-wonder spectacle had color, dash, the spice of novelty and the charm of skillfully stylized performances...
...dining rooms vary in decor. For 55,000 workers at its Seattle plant, Boeing Airplane Co. runs an enormous mess hall that concentrates on low-cost food (steak with French fries: 39?). Baltimore's McCormick & Co., one of the world's biggest spice firms, takes the opposite tack, with a wood-paneled colonial tea-and-dining room decorated with a ship model made of cloves; the waitresses wear 18th century costumes. One of the handsomest company rooms is at General Motors' new Technical Center near Detroit, where 4,500 employees eat in an air-conditioned glass...
...best of the lot, an article on religion at Harvard, the Yearbook holds itself to a straight reporting job, never allowing the fact to flower into truth. As a result, its record of the year tends to be a dreary list of things that occurred, without any of the spice or life which would make one want to remember them...
...orchestral playing. The plot concerns a young man on his wedding night, whose troubles are due more to ignorance than lack of cooperation by his bride. The cast was excellent: Elaine Freybler was a coy but charming bride, Robert Corbright was a properly backward bridegroom, and Ronald Gerbrands added spice as the tutor. This is a piece that shouldn't be missed...
...Claudio Arrau, and a winner of the Pierian Sodality Concerto Contest, was soloist in the next work, Liszt's Piano Concerto in E. With his big tone and sure technique, Lubow was in full control of the brilliant Liszt idiom. Fortissimo octaves boomed and cadenzas scintillated with the appropriate spice and dash. Lubow has one disturbing mannerism, however--he will linger on an appogiatura until the suspense becomes unbearable and the note of resolution is given up forever as lost. The orchestra, which seemed to revel in the bacchanalian decadance of the music, gave the pianist all the support...