Word: legros
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...current roommates and I knew from thebeginning that we wouldn't live together; we havedifferent friends, different schedules, differenttastes in music and clothes," said Susan L. Legro...
Like many of Muriel Spark's best characters, however, Maggie keeps busy being clever. She complains that the "tempo" of her husband's lovemaking is all wrong: "He starts off adagio, adagio. Second phase, well, you might call it al legro ma non troppo and pretty nervy . . ." When she is offstage, Hubert the poseur can usually be counted on for verbal sprightliness. "What is opulence," he asks in his best Oscar Wilde manner, "but a semblance of opulence...