Word: ardor
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...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...
...Ginger, and he didn?t), would declare that it was... Kelly. Kelly?s favorite may have been himself. He was his own partner (and nemesis) in the "alter ego" number from "Cover Girl." He expressed both love and self-love - the potent giddiness of feeling that surge of ardor, ? etc. in "Singin? in the Rain." He danced with a mop in "Thousands Cheer," and he sometimes led his leading ladies the same way. A different leading lady, often a movie ingenue, in almost every picture: Leslie Caron in "An American in Paris," Reynolds in "Singin? in the Rain" (both were...
...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...