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...Coward told me once that my laugh is like a drunken sailor's on leave. But when I get to know somebody and can let my hair down, I am a boisterous, raucous, down-to-earth, no-nonsense lady. I live life with a zest. It has never been dull for me, and I don't anticipate that it ever will be." -By Gerald Clarke/Fort Lauderdale
...raptly to the Everly Brothers on her Sony or the appearance of Polices in rustic back country hamlets--with a comic finesses that never excludes serious meaning, yet never preaches it. Diegues remains oddly hopeful as he charts Brazil's delirious, stumbling trip into the modern world, celebrating the zest of the new Brazil even as he laught at its absurdities. This third World production has a funky charm and affords a welcome art house alternative to frothy French comedies and intellectual German angst...
Despite her protestations, every line reflects an unquenchable zest for living. As a young woman, she is fascinated with a nest of garter snakes, looking "like so many silk shoelaces." In middle age she embraces a languid October day, which has a "warmth so imperious and so gentle that it seems a form of grace." About the same time she meets the man who is to become her third husband. "The sea and the sand have become my native elements," she exclaims. "So is love. Am I not an abominable creature? (I need you to assure me otherwise...
...composer of symphonies andlieder, it came as a shock to the German people when they heard a medley of their university songs composed by a master. Jarvi conducted the Academic Festival Overture, written after Brahms received an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau in 1880, with zest and oomph...
...seems to know instinctively what many talented dancers need years to learn: how to engage an audience. Even in a difficult role where rough edges show, she takes obvious pleasure in being onstage dancing. Her joy leaps right over the footlights and lets the audience share in her zest...