Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway show, quit his job to team with her in a company called "Kated," promoted the belt-'em-out singer into one of the hottest properties on radio and TV, making so much money (they grossed $27 million in their first 20 years) that he could indulge his passion for sports by dropping $1,000,000 on the unsuccessful New York Yanks football team; of a heart attack; in Lake Placid...
...convinced of his own poverty, she recalls, that when guests visited him at his home outside London, "the dreary pudding or pie of which a quarter or half had been consumed at dinner reappeared on the table the next day with its ravages unrepaired." He had a "passion for motoring," and he indulged it "to the last drop of petrol of any visitor's car." He was a hypochondriac and a fussbudget and noticeably thin-skinned where criticism of his work was concerned. But he was also the "greatest talker" she had ever...
HAMLET. Although Richard Burton as Hamlet and Hume Cronyn as Polonius burnish all the richness of language, wit and humor of the play, this revival, and specifically Burton's Hamlet, lacks the burning passion, the mind-tossed anguish, the self-divided will that Hamlet must have to be a true prince of tragedy...
...Thin Red Line. The only good soldier is a crazy soldier. In James Jones's story of the ghastly campaign on Guadalcanal, this thesis was expounded with passion, and in the picture adapted from the novel it is developed with vigor. But somehow, when the stereophonic tumult and the dubbed-in shouting dies, the spectator senses that once again he has been told the tale of the crusty sergeant and the sensitive dogface who fought each other as hard as they fought the enemy but at last became buddies in battle on the island of Twaddlebanal...
Nonetheless, with the passion of the lost cause leader or the glee of a little boy who knows he is doing something wrong, sportswriters are again writing, their traditional Spring obituaries for the Yankees. The failure of the New Yorkers to have clinched the pennant already is being explained by the traditional, idealistic theory that the League is stronger and the Yanks too old or too lame...