Word: zest
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...this kind of stuff. It wasn’t designed for the literary allusions that sportswriters dream of, wasn’t tailor-made for the delightfully violent allusions to hell and Infernos. The words, instead, read plain. Simple. Conspicuously, they lack that loud, Italian vivacity—that zest which leaps off the tongue with a vigor so perfectly becoming of a punishing linebacker...
...director I've ever worked with." Naseeruddin Shah, who plays the father in Monsoon Wedding, adds: "She's a dynamo. We'd be filming at 3 a.m., and she'd still be generating this energy that affected us all." Vanity Fair star Witherspoon was similarly struck by Nair's zest for the intensity and chaos of filmmaking: "We shot in India for three days, and she had 300 extras, two elephants, four camels, and she was directing in Hindi and in English, and she did it without breaking a sweat...
...oozing classic. Along with her opinion of "the best grilled cheese" (cheddar on sourdough), she explores a Dutch-inspired gouda with red onions on rye, right, four Italian cheeses on ciabatta, and a caprese with mozzarella offering a sweet contrast to tangy sun-dried tomatoes and lemon zest. There are even desserts like goat cheese and honey on cinnamon-raisin bread. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...some smothering dreams, you too could pace / Behind the wagon that we flung him in, / And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin….My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory / The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori...
...older couples have much less reason to be uptight about sex. They are also much more likely to be adept at pleasing each other, knowing where and how to arouse. Some sex counselors report that they see quite a bit of what anthropologist Margaret Mead called PMZ (post-menopausal zest). "Indeed, some women begin to have orgasms for the first time as they grow older," write Dr. Robert Butler and his wife, psychotherapist Myrna Lewis, in The New Love and Sex After 60 (Ballantine Books; 400 pages), the latest edition of their classic advice book...