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Word: passion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does he skimp on such intimate details as the site and sound of his introduction to extra marital sex. "What it amounts to is that she seduced me," writes Asimov in apparent amazement. "I just followed along, with my teeth more or less chattering, and not out of passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...fuss over a subject that does not normally raise such passion? Rosalynn Carter, as honorary chairwoman of the President's Commission on Mental Health, was appearing before Senator Edward Kennedy's Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research. Washington tingled at the prospect. Not since Eleanor Roosevelt testified in 1945 about local affairs in the District of Columbia had a President's wife appeared before a congressional committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Carter and a Kennedy Agree | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...Giancarlo Giannini, Lina Wertmuller's man of all movies, has long since transferred his sexual interest from his exquisite wife Giuliana to his mistress, a fiery countess named Teresa (Jennifer O'Neill). Tullio tells Giuliana that he loves her as he would a sister, but that his passion belongs to Teresa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: La Diff | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...show, Fonteyn, 59, visited a ballet school in Peking, chatted with Fred Astaire in Los Angeles and inter viewed Nijinsky's daughter in Manhattan. Outside Athens, she saw the remains of a "temple of dance" built in 1904 by flamboyant American Dancer Isadora Duncan. "Isadora had a passion for children, and now the Greek children run in and out of the ruins," says Dame Margot. "They don't care whose house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Record | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

Fortunately, Shakespeare's plays are fueled by more than a consummate mastery of the English tongue. They search out what Hamlet called "the motive and the cue for passion" and release characters like comets blazing across four centuries without extinction. In the universality of its human concerns and its storytelling entrancement, any of Shakespeare's front-rank plays redeems the flaws of the players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Arc of Anguish | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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