Word: ardor
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...BEGINS "The Silky Veils of Ardor," the last song on Joni Mitchell's newest album, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. Throughout her career, Mitchell has been traveling--a hitcher, a wanderer, a tourist, a pilgrim with no destination. Her albums are not so much a chronicle of her travels as a portrait of the traveler. And the traveler is slowly, sadly, desperately slipping away...
...Juan's Reckless Daughter is more than a series of uncontrolled, desperate self-portraits. Mitchell does impose some structure on the album, so that it forms a more or less cohesive whole. She is forever the wayfaring stranger of "The Silky Veils of Ardor," moving on, searching for something intangible. She longs to make life click joyously into place. She sees through other people's unsuccessful efforts to "get through this passion play." In "Otis and Marlena," for example, Mitchell depicts a couple visiting Miami Beach, down from somewhere in the north...
...final cut, "The Silky Veils of Ardor," Mitchell sets aside Hell and dreaming and escape. In this simple, sad song, Mitchell plays unaccompanied acoustic guitar, and sings of the long, lonely ride home. She sings as if she plans to make...
...ardor, his passion, his kindness, his wit, the juices of his undammed Life Force flow through Donnelly's performance. Donnelly captures the nuances of the aging process, the time when the patriarchal beard seems to wag the man. Yet throughout, the actor maintains a conversational urbanity that makes the show a fit companion for two of Shaw's pet abominations, brandy and cigars...
...build the necessary crucial bridges to Capitol Hill; nor did he have the experienced staff to help. He often seemed to bog down in detail and yet to slight the routine requirements of the job, such as sometimes twisting congressional arms. He has not demonstrated quite the same ardor in the presidency that he did in the campaign...