Word: ardor
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...Ohio's James Rhodes and Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, privately favor Rockefeller. He must prove to these and other favorite sons that he can keep enough delegates out of Nixon's net between now and August to merit their support. Rockefeller must also rekindle the ardor of other Governors who have been chilled by his recent to-ing and froing...
...standard 007 diversion, weapons and women are fondled with equal ardor, though sex is not nearly as important as the inflicting and suffering of physical pain. Indeed, Amis hits an almost pornographic intensity as his Bond gets his eardrums probed with a meat skewer, his septum stimulated by a broom straw, and his frontal lobe pummeled with an incessant and derivative yak about the spiritual union between the tormented and the tormentor. The pedantic sadist is Colonel Sun of the People's Liberation Army of China, who wants to blow up some Russians and then blame the incident...
Whether croaking out a few bars of a Polish ditty on Dyngus Day* in South Bend, Ind., or japing down hecklers in Coos Bay, Ore., Robert Kennedy continued to elicit the extremes of ardor and rancor...
...just goes to show that it takes more than some horrid divorce-court testimony by ex-Wife Dyan Cannon to dim the ardor of Gary Grant's devoted legions. There he was, three weeks after that nasty automobile crackup, bounding out of a Queens, New York, hospital looking nowhere near his 64 years and flashing that famous grin as several hundred shrieking females gathered to wish him well. "I feel great," said Gary, and proved it by planting a kiss on the cheek of Sister Thomas Francis, executive director of the hospital. "Oh, my," said Sister Francis, blushing...
Anthony Quinn does his thing in Guns for San Sebastian-he sweats and grunts with apelike ardor over food, wine and women; he fights like a tiger and suffers like a saint. When Quinn does his thing, it is usually very well done indeed, but the kind of film he does it in is another matter...