Mr. Gluckstern is the author of "The Wine Avenger," a paperback (Fireside, $11) that in amusing, feisty, iconoclastic language lays out his culinary philosophy.
If so, the blackout was the most obvious of a number of moves against the press in Thailand, particularly against the Nation Group, a major media company, which started a feisty Thai language newspaper last year.
Cain, a black Republican who wants America to return to the gold standard, and who says Muslims can't be trusted to serve in the federal government, wowed the largely white, middle-class audience the same way Donald Trump has – with feisty, plainspoken business language devoid of the usual soundbites.
Check out the Web site of The Cairo Times, a feisty new English-language Egyptian paper published out of Cyprus.
James Wright, 41, the owner/guardian of Marco, a feisty Great Pyrenees, was upbeat about the new language, which he said would "gradually change people's perceptions".
The guide goes on to quote Michael Geis, author of the Language of Politics: "One can call a pekinese dog spunky or feisty, but one would not, I think, call a great dane spunky or feisty".
Filmgoers who are interested in Jane Austen remakes should note that Rai also appeared in "Kandukondain Kandukondain," a "Tollywood" (Tamil language) remake of "Sense and Sensibility," and an extremely interesting one -- modern, feisty and feminist.
An equally feisty message was delivered by Hidayet Tuksal, a Turkish theologian who wants to change the "patriarchal language and codes" that Muslims wrongly see as an essential part of their faith.At the British affair, a verbal bombshell was thrown by Abdal-Hakim Murad, a Cambridge don and respected Muslim scholar.
Once in a while, Molly mangles the language with unwitting charm ("The landlord is coming tomorrow at my inconvenience!" she crows), or Jake delivers a feisty left-wing diatribe.
