Word: ardor
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...film opens in 1953, with the marriage of lovely Chen Shujuan (Lu Liping), a schoolteacher, and gentle Lin Shaolong (Pu Quanxin), a librarian. The two believe they have much to celebrate: their warm love, to be sure, but also the dawn of a true People's Republic. Their political ardor can't last; what begins in naive hope is crushed against the great wall of Maoist reality...
...that. "Our decision did not make the future of the cable industry more uncertain," Hundt insists. "Our job is to protect the public interest and prevent cable companies from charging monopoly prices." The demise of the Bell Atlantic-TCI deal has certainly not cooled either company's ardor for future consolidations. They are still talking about possible cooperative ventures between them, and each firm is already eyeing prospective new partners. "There's plenty of adrenaline pumping here," Smith says. "We are a company on the prowl." So is TCI. No sooner had the merger collapsed than rumors began flying...
...falling to earth, the little sparrow soared to grandeur. She was an international star and the last in the line of French singers famous for chansons realistes, gritty songs about real people. They are stories of love lost, of city streets at twilight and tears at midnight. Suffering and ardor suffuse her music because Piaf performed the same way she lived, holding back nothing. "Je suis entiere," she once said, I am totally committed. Heard again, the husky, impassioned voice revives a fading dream of Paris. And for that, the French again clasp her to their hearts and will never...
...virtues of reticence and gentility are considered dead in the Age of Prurience. Yet they still govern our lives whenever we check an impulse to explode in love or anger -- when we don't shout at a reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero for our fugitive fantasy egos, Newland Archer is the patron saint of our everyday conscience, the coachman on our journey as the years dissolve into decades and the decades into decay...
...rational self-interests only gain the upper hand when one side has worn out its ardor in denying the other side's humanity. That time comes when people understand that their malevolent dreams cannot be realized: neither Israel nor the P.L.O. can destroy each other. Or that moment arrives when two groups realize they do not have the wherewithal to defeat each other but can actually become stronger if they combine resources. South African whites cannot suppress the blacks without exacting a death toll they cannot tolerate; neither can the blacks shoot their way to power. By joining hands...