Word: fervidly
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Social kissing takes much of its inspiration from show business, where for years an oscular promiscuity has prevailed. Kissing appeals to show people in part because it is inherently more theatrical than, say, handshaking or nodding. Kisses can be invested with any emotion from the most fervid passion to a hydrochloric malice. They play well. Singer Linda Ronstadt explains it in another way: "The business consists of people who are so desperately insecure and lonely, and they have to have contact: we're all affection junkies...
While Jimmy Carter has settled most of his indignation on getting rich unfairly-on tax loopholes and the lobbyists who preserve and enlarge them -his fervid campaign cries often have biblical overtones suggesting that the wealthy are vaguely evil. Gerald Ford, on the other hand, eagerly indulges in the resort rituals of the rich and some-tunes seems more enamored with White House luxuries like Camp David and Air Force One than his job. Ford's love of the golf circuit back in his congressional days could cost him crucial support, since it has been revealed corporations footed some...
...upset some, and the over-all tenor of the film is probably exemplified better by a bizarre "dance" of beef carcasses in a slaughter house, done to an operatic score. The entire image suggests Wertmuller's perverse opinion of her characters, and it certainly shows the possibilities of fervid imagination pitted it now seems clear after five features, against an all but non-existent sense of discrimination...
Divorce time comes like a fifth season in hell. Fury is king. In one scene, Johan slaps and pummels Marianne till her nose sluices blood. Yet their fiercest encounters act as unconscious aphrodisiacs leading to sudden fervid couplings. Several years pass. Johan gets married again, but not to the student. So does Marianne. They meet. The old libidinous magic still works. They head for a clandestine weekend in a country cottage, free at last, or so Bergman would have us believe, to breathe the oxygen of joy that marriage to each other had throttled...
...emotional encounter occurred during three days of hearings last week on the charged issue of amnesty. Thirty-two witnesses, representing all shades of opinion, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of Justice. But the fervid debate only served to show how positions have hardened on one of America's most agonizing issues: how to handle 207,000 men who evaded the draft during the Viet Nam War and 29,000 who deserted...