Word: ardor
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...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...
Catharine's ardor rises. "Absence rather increases than lessens my affections," she writes. But by now Franklin senses all this may be going too far, and he retreats to an avuncular tone, advising her to marry and surround herself with "clusters of plump, juicy, blushing, pretty little rogues like their Mama...
...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...
...Christian Crusaders. He wanted to fulfill the modern-day promise of Egypt's great nationalist Gamal Abdul Nasser, restoring Arab unity and the greater Arab nation to its rightful place in the world. In recent years the standard-bearer of secular Baathism even turned to prayer to exploit Islamic ardor, building gigantic mosques and lacing his speeches with the language of jihad...
...Special Forces obviously wanted a fast read of what happened. They may also have wanted to cool the Peshmerga ardor. Toward the end of the meeting, some of the Peshmerga military cadre were doing precisely that-circulating in the yard hugging the most passionate fighters, whispering orders and telling jokes. Later, when most of the cars (but not the Special Forces) had left, I asked to see Mam Rostam. "Come back tomorrow," I was told. "He seems to have lost his voice...