Word: ardor
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...much better understanding of a man who famously refused all interviews and wrote no memoirs. In his introduction, Sachs predicts that Toscanini?s numerous affairs will garner the most attention, and there are indeed many, many pages of 'erotic, pornographic ravings.? After a while, this seemingly ageless adolescent?s ardor grows wearisome, and we are grateful that he also wrote copiously about more interesting matters like music...Music, history, and gossip from a master musician and letter." PW agrees. "This will be catnip to music lovers. FORECAST: Toscanini has never lost his hold on the public imagination. Wide review attention...
...industry insider. Xin, who missed the first half of the season to attend Communist Party school, admits to no great passion for hoops. "If I had things my way, I would be a full-time painter of traditional Chinese landscapes," he says. But he defends the system with the ardor of a Red Guard. "The CBA should earn the money and distribute it equally to the clubs," he says. "This is the only way we can maintain power and keep order." The lack of profits he attributes to poor budgeting by owners. "If the clubs understood how to take care...
...them is bad tempered; another is terminally diffident; two are burdened with awful parents--one permanently angry, another alcoholic. The minister is losing touch with God, and frankly, the Italian woman really ought to be studying Danish so that she can articulate her unlikely ardor for the shy tutor in his native language...
...Chain Saw Massacre. Most of them anti-black, all of them bitter, they need the face slap of redemption. It arrives in a comely package: Leticia (Halle Berry), a hapless mom who looks nifty in widow's weeds. She brings out the courtly gent in Hank and forces his ardor to do battle with his prejudices...
...When love actually triumphs (after the long journey in which Gable's newspaperman has almost prudishly refused to take advantage of Ellie's ardor and has declined her father's reward of $10,000), it is the victory of an ordinary American's honor over the opulent phoniness of too much money and of gaudily dishonest media...