Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaigned, Bush stressed his broad experience in government. In Boston, he pursued the youth vote very nearly to the cradle: "I want to restore the stars in third-graders' eyes." But he failed to stir his audiences with speeches that contained more thought than passion and were carefully qualified. Compared with either Connally or Reagan, Bush is unexciting on the stump, a serious handicap for any long shot...
...Jimmy attacking Teddy and Jerry attacking Jimmy and George attacking the attackers, it seemed like old times. The language was enriched. "Fig leaf," said Kennedy. "Baloney," said Carter. "Botched the job," charged Ford. "Reckless . . . failure," roared Bush. There is room for rhetorical improvement, but at least there is some passion. The juices are flowing. Labor bosses are sorting through the possibilities. Businessmen are hustling money. Young matrons, bored for too many months, are choosing up sides, stuffing their salons with contributors, advancemen and bearded campaign strategists...
...awash in cinematic jokes and asides: Hill laces the action with references to Hollywood lore, his own past hits and Truffaut's Antoine Doinel movies. The film's portrait of young love may be touching, but its most moving moments celebrate love of a different kind: the passion that movie professionals, both young and old, have for their craft...
Among German Christians, even those who express doubts about Jesus' Resurrection, Lapide's ideas have been welcomed. Besides working on a third book, which is to deal with Jesus' Passion, Lapide has time to appear at religious conferences where he has been known to twit German liberal Christians about their lack of faith. The demythologizers of Easter, he says, are "sawing off the branch of faith upon which they are sitting...
...understated evil of Daltry's Queen. She never manages to portray a character that can convincingly sing "I'll show him what he could be now/just give me one night/I'm the gypsy, the Acid Queen/Pay before we start." Finally the chorus, though it can sing, never displays much passion or dynamic range as actors until the final scene of the show...