Word: ardor
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...brother Jim (Randle Mell), a painter; and Jim's former girlfriend Nessa (Mary McDonnell), a singer-shared a giddy faith in revolution while at the University of Wisconsin in the early '70s. When they meet again it is 1979; time and events have tamped down their political ardor. But Nessa has become a radical feminist who "had to give up sleeping with my oppressors" and has taken up with a girlish member of her back-up group (Holly Hunter again). Nessa's litany of "Heavy"s and "Oh, wow"s, her laser-beam stare and the brightest...
...surrender their luxuriant individuality. One young woman with a large birthmark on her cheek and a mischievous smile in her eyes tells a virginal girlfriend: "You don't know what it's like to be ugly and still feel beautiful." An angel-faced teen-age boy, whose ardor for Fascism amounts almost to sexual hysteria, is shot by some of the villagers he tried to kill; seeing this, his Fascist father flies into a fatal jitterbug of despair, burrowing his head into the hard earth. Cecilia, at six the youngest of the fleeing villagers, finds the ordeal...
...kidnaping of U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier triggered the most extensive manhunt in Italian history. That investigation not only led to Dozier's rescue but Mario Moretti netted dozens of guerrillas as well. The police drew up psychological profiles of Red Brigades members that explored their revolutionary ardor and probable reaction to the prospect of life imprisonment, and then zeroed in on those who seemed likely to turn informant in exchange for a lighter sentence. The tactic worked, and the confessions snowballed. The mood of the country also changed, for the Moro and Dozier incidents, combined with...
Indeed, there is a small but militant cadre of black intellectuals who have embraced conservative ideas with the ardor of a William F. Buckley. These right-wing blacks have set up a number of think tanks, Like Public Relations Consultant J.A. Parker's Lincoln Institute for Research and Education in Washington. They have also established the New Coalition for Economic and Social Change, a 300-member, California-based group of inteLlectuaLs, businessmen and politicians closely linked to the conservative Heritage Foundation. Says New Coalition's president Clarence Pendleton, who is also chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil...
...dance an amorous roundelay whose steps are guided by biology, sympathy and caprice. Woody is again the chronically lovable shlemiel, torn between his passion for the ethereal Ariel (Mia Farrow) and his longing for the wife (Mary Steenburgen) he cannot satisfy sexually. When he tries and she finds his ardor disgusting, he retorts, "How can it be? I haven't taken my clothes off yet." Allen's directorial eye finds amusement in restraint, allowing characters to wander in and out of a static frame, playing droll tricks on his own autocratic camera. Gordon Willis has shot the pastoral...