Word: ardor
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What had cooled the committee members' ardor to investigate Lance? For one thing, the Democratic Senators doubtless were reluctant to tackle Carter's close and powerful associate. But other important reasons seem to have been the inconclusiveness of the charges against the budget director and his masterful, good-humored performance in the hearing room. Said one committee member afterward: "It would have been easier for us to go on the attack if he had come up here with a battery of lawyers and a prepared statement. But Lance came alone and barehanded. You've got to respect...
...Madrid, Mortal Sin, a lively revue?complete with a nude scene ?that pokes fun at everything, including politicians of all stripes. The most popular film in Madrid last winter was The Proposal, a sexually explicit tale of an amoral senorita who accidentally kills her lover out of erotic ardor. But Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris has yet to be shown, and a poet was recently fined $2,700 for reading in public a work by Garcia Lorca available in most bookstores...
...delightful ambiguity, some suspense and a saucy wit. Everything depends on the two leads. In his jealous anxiety, Bedford can twitch his nose like a mouse scenting cheese. He affects a synthetic Russian accent that is weirdly comic and as the disguised suitor, he woos his wife with the ardor of a drawing-room Cossack...
...Negro Ensemble Company has always displayed a remarkable ardor and virtuosity in performance. The caliber of the plays has sometimes lagged behind. In The Brownsville Raid, the company has a grand theme to work with-a harsh miscarriage of justice...
First we proclaim our long-concealed ardor...