Word: ardor
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...Jerry Lee was Lenin triumphant - the shock of the new suddenly sitting, smirking, raving on the old throne. Except JLL sat on a piano stool. Sat at the beginning, anyway. Then the fingers at the ends of those long, thin, untanned arms attacking the piano with the furiously proficient ardor of a Rubinstein or a Rubirosa. Yes, children, I remember that performance as if it were from the best, clearest yesterday that changed my teen tomorrows. But Nick Tosches, Lewis' biographer, conjures it with an infernal eloquence I couldn't match. Here, then, a passage from "Hellfire...
...like "My Voyage to Italy." For this is a love letter - to a form of cinema, to its creators, to the nation that inspired it, to the generations of Marty's cinematic children who may learn to appreciate it. But should Marty undertake this third grand project of ardor and remembrance, I have a few other British artists for him to consider. Vivien Leigh ... Jean Simmons ... Joan Greenwood ... Margaret Lockwood ... Celia Johnson ... Claire Bloom ... Jessie Matthews ... Kay Kendall ... Dorothy Tutin ... Barbara Steele ... Julie Christie ... And who was that elusive beauty whose gravity anchors Carol Reed's "The Third...
...Padme and Anakin, they could be the first plausible love duo in the Lucas oeuvre. Theirs is a coming-of-age story: Padme's slow realization that the 9-year-old she left behind has grown up. At first she deflects his ardor by calling him by his old diminutive, Annie--a girl's nickname, a gentle emasculator--and telling him, "You'll always be that little boy I knew on Tatooine." He doesn't help his case by plighting his troth at every opportunity. (Is there anything less sexy than declared devotion?) But gradually, Padme, beguiled by Anakin...
...anyone doubts the ardor of grass-roots support for the anti-American militancy in southern Afghanistan, Kandahar's cemetery for al-Qaeda fighters bears unequivocal testimony. Hundreds of mourners have descended on the graveyard from as far away as Mazar-i-Sharif, Kabul and Uruzgan province. What began as daily homages have grown into all-night vigils. Men, women and children sleep by the graves. Devotees recite the Koran throughout the night. The paralyzed, ill and blind flock to the site seeking miracle cures, which many claim to receive. Men mumble, repeating scripture until they fall into a trance, swaying...
...child abusers in the U.S. The true pedophile is drawn to children not merely incidentally but exclusively. Most pedophiles target kids in the threshold years before puberty, but some look further down the age spectrum, seeking out even toddlers. Pedophiles who prefer preadolescents often court them with the ardor of a suitor, lavishing attention, praise and gifts on the child they have chosen. Typically they tell themselves that the relationship is a mutually beneficial one--something they believe until the child reaches puberty, and the abuser suddenly loses interest...