Word: zestfulness
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Despite his stocky football player's build, pugnacious Chuck McKinley danced, pranced and pirouetted around Wimbledon's center court last week like a souped-up Nijinsky. The gallery loved it. What had been shaping up as the dullest Wimbledon tournament of the century was suddenly infused with zest and excitement, and the credit belonged entirely to the 20-year-old, 5-ft. 8-in., 163 lb. dynamo from St. Louis. "Chunky Chuck looks like a rock but moves like a dragonfly," said a British newsman. Marveled the London Times: "He plays most of the time with both feet...
...theater. There is sex enough in The Alchemist to justify it as the focus of a production; but to squeeze sex out of every line, to impose sex when there is none to squeeze, blurs the sharp outlines of Jonson's play and dulls his sharp wit. The lusty zest which director Mark Mirsky tried to inject into the production bloated it into a rarely amusing, never shocking bore...
...Sidney III never developed the father's obsession for the game. He was too interested in too many other things -hockey, baseball and an elaborate game of stickball he invented and played with all his father's zest. Two years ago, young Sid left Yale to spend the winter with his father in New York. "He was worried about his future in tennis because of some trouble he was having with his back," says the father. "His marks were down. And some of his depression came from his split home-his mother and I were divorced...
...same manufacturer. Dodge puts out a "confidential" booklet for Lancer salesmen pointing out the good features of the Lancer and the bad ones of the Valiant-though both are made by Chrysler. Sample comparison: "Lancer; new styling inside and out. Valiant; last year's styling." The Zestful Game. The wealth of car models-and the dearth of sales-has put new zest into that great American game: the battle of wits between car seller and buyer. Once the customer's main interest was in car quality and dealer reliability, and he bargained halfheartedly. Today's customer...
...Prodding List." Jack Kennedy pursued his job with zest and frenetic impatience. Once, Special Assistant Kenny O'Donnell returned to his office to find the President reading a stack of O'Donnell's mail. "What have you done about this?" Kennedy asked, flourishing a letter. Replied O'Donnell: "I haven't read...