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#123521 - 02/21/04 12:07 PM Re: Sprezzatura
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	I remember a bit of "sprezzatura" in the Disney production of Peter Pan, in which Captain Hook (a cartoon copy of Basil Rathbone) lights a cigarette with left hand while nonchalanontly fencing with an opponent he isn't even looking at .
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#123522 - 02/22/04 10:25 AM Re: Sprezzatura
Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...	That might have been Hook's lightszatura wwh. There are other forms: writeszzatura jazzzzatura or closely related improvisazzatura balletzzatura rodeozzatura or closely relted barrel-racezzatura for of troy, knittszzatura for faldo, knitpickszzatura for jackie, doubleentendrezzatura or not-related bardophobiazzatura for Dame Joan Sutherland, coloraturazzatura for Sunday afternoon couched potatoes, snoozzzatura Any other notable zzaturas?
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#123523 - 02/22/04 11:38 AM Re: Sprezzatura
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11582 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	jazzzzatura Poetzzatura
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#123524 - 02/22/04 12:51 PM Re: Sprezz
grapho addict Registered: 11/09/03 Posts: 619 Loc: Carpal Tunnel Country	My mum always said that the best way to get a new word into your vocabulary was to use it. A performance sublime That's sprezzatura The best after that Is only bravura. Case in point: Secretariat in the Belmont, 1973. Who remembers any Triple Crown winner since? Other Sprezzaturissimo Moments? Miracle on Ice Nadia's perfect "10" Simply sprezz!
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#123525 - 02/22/04 01:18 PM Re: Sprezzatura
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	GREAT sex --Kama zzatura _________________________ TEd
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#123526 - 02/22/04 01:23 PM Re: Sprezzatura
grapho addict Registered: 11/09/03 Posts: 619 Loc: Carpal Tunnel Country	kama sutra Kama sutra is great sex without the sprezz.
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#123527 - 02/22/04 01:43 PM Re: Sprezzatura
maahey addict Registered: 12/03/02 Posts: 555	The epitome of studied casualness; the absolute icon of Sprezzatura - James Bond! No!? Am also thinking....women down the ages have always had this quality haven't they? Somehow, they always exuded a certain strength, confidence, vim; were the bulwarks of their families, managed SO many things in a day, children, homes, finances, social relationships, food, farms and still made it all look so effortless. ....distinct and definite erosion of sprezzatura methinks; at least certainly at this end; one job seems too much at times And now...I shall await the brickbats that are certain to come
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#123528 - 02/22/04 02:40 PM Re: Sprezzatura
grapho addict Registered: 11/09/03 Posts: 619 Loc: Carpal Tunnel Country	the bulwarks of their families You can still find those "bulwarks" in Third World countries, but there isn't much sprezz in their existence. P.S. What is your historical reference anyway? Vivian Leigh in "Gone with the Wind"?
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#123529 - 02/22/04 02:54 PM Re: Sprezzatura
maahey addict Registered: 12/03/02 Posts: 555	I am Third World-ian by race Grapho, but that is not the reason for the lack of the 'Sprezz', I assure you
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#123530 - 02/22/04 03:05 PM Re: Sprezzatura
grapho addict Registered: 11/09/03 Posts: 619 Loc: Carpal Tunnel Country	I am Third World-ian by race Third World-ian isn't "a race", Maahey. It's a condition. A truly unfortunate condition. Fortunately, you escaped it.
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