Word: zestfulness
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...brushwork is highly personalized and uninhibited. The earthy zest and pounding rhythm of Luca Giordano's 1702 Crucifixion is all the more remarkable because the artist turned out his work at maximum speed; in his day, he was known as Luca fa presto, or Fast Worker Luca. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini's Fall of Phaëthon is built of thin, semitransparent layers of oil paint and has a lightness that the finished fresco undoubtedly lacked (the sketch has outlived the fresco, which was destroyed in World...
Best of the bunch is Pete Rose, 26, a brassy, bristle-topped Irishman, whose flip tongue and frenetic brand of baseball have injected fresh breath into an increasingly stale game. His zest once branded him a showoff. "In the minors, they called me 'Hot Dog' and 'Hollywood,' " he snorts, "but they don't holler at me in the majors." They certainly don't. Spraying hits from either side of the plate, Rightfielder Rose has batted better than .300 in each of the past three seasons. This year, with a .327 average, he is fighting...
...standards, last week's concert at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum was a typical Schneider enterprise. It was part of yet another series directed by him. The program consisted of chamber works by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, all played by Schneider and his fellow performers with much warmth, zest and perhaps a shade too much emotionalism (in Schneider's view, "Haydn was a romantic composer; Mozart too-and Bach"). The performance was unified, but each player had the freedom to express his own personality. "Homogeneity is the worst thing in music," Schneider explains. "It is not so good...
There was a zest and a joy and a capacity for facing and surviving disaster that are very moving and very rare. Perhaps we were, all of us-pimps, whores, racketeers, church members, and children-bound together by the nature of our oppression. If so, within these limits we sometimes achieved with each other a freedom that was close to love. I remember, anyway, church suppers and outings, and, later, after I left the church, rent and waistline parties where rage and sorrow sat in the darkness and did not stir, and we ate and drank and talked and laughed...
Stage Tizz. Hostess Graham credits the zest of her show to Producer Monty Morgan's "infallible casting of the wrong people who will be right together." They turn out right only because she is there as catalyst and referee. A onetime Chicago Tribune reporter and soap-opera scriptwriter, Virginia, 55, describes herself as the one "who looks like two June Allysons," the one with "the perfect face for radio." She is also the one who gushes too much, as in her introduction of Guest Muriel Humphrey: "You're so beautiful it's ridiculous! It looks like...