Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schickel's review of "F.I.S.T." talks about everything but the tremendous passion, excitement and impact that Norman Jewison's direction infuses the film with. There's more genuine love for movie making in any single moment of "F.I.S.T.," more controlled energy and more depth of understanding, than any of the other "important" or "personal" films to come out this year...
...there was no guarantee of what effects a weekend of fierce lobbying might produce-it would be an impressive victory for Carter, given the energy and passion that have been expended on the plane deal. Or. rather, on one aspect of it: the sale of 60 F-15 fighters, considered to be among the world's most advanced interceptors, to Saudi Arabia. Carter's original proposal also included the sale of 15 F-15s and 75 F-16s to Israel, and 50 less sophisticated F-5Es to Egypt. In the eyes of the country's vocal...
...history of automotive design, the Italians have contributed passion; the French, intellectuality; the English, quiet luxury; and the Germans and Americans, engineering. To the delight of shahs and stars and the merely rich, the new replicars combine all these elements, making even a run to the deli a royal procession...
...tapes come to light in his version of the story, Nixon makes it appear that he is as surprised as anyone at their contents. He does not defend his constitutional battle to save them from scrutiny, a major legal question, with much passion. Nor does he depict his progress towards impeachment with anything much beyond a description of eroding congressional support, as if it were a doomed legislative proposal and not an investigation of gross misconduct. He occasionally states calmly, as if it were natural, that he became convinced at various times that various people were...
Granted, the center does good work--but does it do enough good work? Virtually the only program at Harvard seeking to improve teaching skills, the center has been called a mere token, something Harvard can proudly point to when critics accuse her of harboring a single-minded passion for research. Krupnick explains that the center is small because administrators were initially skeptical about the experiment. "They were waiting to see if it would just be a trendy thing that would fall on its face," she says...