Word: spicing
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...this kind of dramatic handicap bothers Shaw the way an out-of-tune piano would have hurt Beethoven. What the playwright loses in motion and physical life he more than makes up for in intellectual content. Indeed, making Joan proud, self-righteous, and a military crusader adds intellectual spice to such questions as "Was she really guilty?" and "Would we burn her today?" It also leads up to the nationalism, monarchism, and Protestantism that Joan purportedly represents, and to some fine razzle-dazzle Shavian dialogue on these topics. In many ways the scenes in which these questions are most thoroughly...
...story itself, in one version or another, is not new. What gave it spice for Londoners was the fact that Russia's Nikita Khrushchev told it on himself at 10 Downing Street...
...interviewed in her Scollay Square dressing room, she told the CRIMSON "I got no personal gain from the speech. I just had to get it off my chest. I am not seeking political office." During the more recent smokey years, the Committee has managed to produce some variety of spice including a bashful Dick Button's placing a garter about the leg of Miss Sweater Girl of 1952. The Smoker, however, has lost most of its old brashness, and much of the noise now comes from Al Capp who jokingly has insulted the Yardlings and protected the Wellesley Widows...
...glamorous life," she says, "but it tires me out." As it is, she scarcely drinks four shots of whisky in a year, and a taxi ride is almost like a spree. She has no jewelry, no furs. She still wears some blouses that she bought in high school. The spice of her life is a window-shopping walk down Fifth Avenue...
...chance to show some ginger. "I am a Socialist because I hate and loathe social injustice, because I hate the class structure that disfigures our society, because I hate poverty and squalor!" he cried. "Nationalization is a means, and not an end in itself." The delegates, surprised at such spice, roared an ovation...