Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book relates the improbable story of a delightful college sophomore named Candy Christian, a girl "lush at the breast and thigh, lithe and willowy along the waist and limbs." Possessed of a sweet and cheerful disposition, this lass has a consuming passion to help fulfill the needs of those less fortunate than...
...each a different short piece (Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Paganini, Handel, Brahms). "The more output and resource an instrument has," Ricci says, "the more difficult it is to handle." He proves that he can handle them all, but like Heifetz and Stern, he favors the Guarnerii, capable of more bite and passion than the more fluid and poetic Strads, which are the first choice of Milstein, Oistrakh, Francescatti and Menuhin...
...SILENCE is celestial, the passion terrestrial in Ingmar Bergman's bold, beautifully acted drama of life among the damned. Pleading humanity's case are a lesbian, a nymphomaniac and an innocent child...
...have never seen such torment as his jealousy puts him in-it is as though a wild beast has been sewn up inside him and is clawing to get out. His whole body writhes and flails, out of control-not the reeling and grimacing that often passes for passion, but the real thing, directed from within. He kills with such sorrow that it is unbearable. He is a very great actor, indeed...
Chief among his eccentricities was a passion for speaking out in the lecture room on every conceivable topic. What he liked, he praised with elaborate encomiums, phrased in flawless English, seasoned with appropriate Latin or Greek quotations. What he disliked, he loathed and damned with vehemence, often using Arabic or Turkish oaths to communicate his emotion, frequently turning purple with rage...