Word: ardors
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...that would have done credit to a baroque grandee. In motion he radiates amplitude verging on excess. In One Charming Night, a dance set to four Purcell songs, he presents his own outrageously funny version of the old warhorse Le Spectre de la Rose, leaping and swooping with abandoned ardor around his seated beloved (Teri Weksler). But unlike Fokine's blithe spirit, Morris does not finish by flying out the window. Instead, he and Weksler thrash out their all too mundane frustrations and resentments before he finally carries her off, high above his head, as if to reassert his ideal...
...George Emerson, also a resident of the Pensione Bertolini in Florence, steals a kiss from her when they are out on an innocent picnic. And then does it again after a game of lawn tennis when they are back in England, where the climate is supposed to dampen such ardor. And what about Cecil Vyse, George? He may be a silly prig, but Lucy Honeychurch is now engaged to him. Have you forgotten the gentleman's code...
...Cherish. But there is enough sweet irony in her voice to suggest that she has looked into the face of her teenage pal Andie (Molly Ringwald) and seen just why the Fountain of Youth is laced with citric acid. Teenhood is the pits. Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment. Anguish over dates and grades streaks the first application of mascara. Clique rivalries make the Iran-Iraq war seem congenial by comparison. Emotions newly discovered are unique and convulsive. She loves me! Life hates me! How anyone endures this seven-year manic-depressive itch is a mystery even...
...ticket, the only prominent absentee was former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who declined to appear because he had expected to be out of the country. Some, including North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, were accorded podium time mostly as a reward for long-standing ardor. Others, notably former Delaware Governor Pierre S. du Pont IV, were long shots by any standard. A clear favorite was Kirkpatrick, a "heroine to conservatives" as Keene called her, who delivered a foreign policy address to the convention. Kirkpatrick called on the U.S. to "let the world know we stand...
Robbins' more familiar virtues are evident too, particularly his inspired casting. In selecting Luders -- a fine partner but a phlegmatic performer often taken for granted by the audience and even by himself -- the choreographer rinses away years of familiarity to present a dancer of mesmerizing ardor. Luders reveals a plangency and aplomb that match Farrell's stroke for stroke...