Word: ardor
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...under arrest, they come from the country's volatile southeast, near the border with Iraq, known for its Kurdish separatists and Islamic extremists. Although a few Islamic militant groups have been around for years, Turkish authorities considered them a spent force. But the turmoil in Iraq has revived their ardor. Local extremists, says Mehmet Farac, who has written several books on Turkish militants, want to resurrect themselves, and al-Qaeda's expertise can help them...
...Bush's ardor for the topic grew during a trip to Japan last month. He told aides that if Japan, which had little or no experience with democracy before World War II, could embrace the system, so could the people of the Middle East. The speech, written by Michael Gerson, went through 10 drafts, with input from Condoleezza Rice and other national-security aides. All were aware that Bush's words would implicitly criticize his father's Administration, among others, for its support of dictatorships: "Sixty years of excusing and accommodating ... did nothing to make us safe." After delivering...
...once harnessed and released in a role that should earn the actor the stardom predicted since his supporting role in High Fidelity. Preening and wheedling, playing to the camera like Mick Jagger to a microphone, Black gives this unaffected, four-on-the-floor In-School Special the ardor, and innocence, of that old-time rock 'n' roll. --By Richard Corliss
...even in the face of calamity, he went on making love scenes, colored sometimes by the knowledge that man is a beast in all senses. In 1939, one year after White Crucifixion, he completed Midsummer Night's Dream, in which a woman uses her blue fan to deflect the ardor of a goat-ass who is but also is not Shakespeare's comic Bottom. We are born partly of the animal world, says Chagall, but sometimes we transform our base impulses into gold...
...DIED. BARRY WHITE, 58, moody, mountainous singer known as the "Black Walrus of Love" whose libidinous baritone and concupiscent lyrics inspired ardor on divans and backseats through the 1970s; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. White took the bawdy jazz ballad and applied a lush varnish of soul to produce such hits as Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe and You're the First, the Last, My Everything. White was rediscovered by younger generations and in 2000 won his first two Grammys for the song Staying Power...