Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gentleman and scholar, diplomat and master painter, Peter Paul Rubens was that rare artist, at home with himself and his society. His orchestrations of the Christian, the mythic and the historical have endured as voluptuous celebrations of human passion and faith. Marking the 400th anniversary of his birth, Rubens by Frans Baudouin (Abrams; 405 pages; $60) pays rich tribute to the Flemish master with a gallery of 278 illustrations and a meticulous text tracing his stylistic development and the temper of his times...
...other hand, Stephen Toope is badly miscast as Eilert Lovborg. Ibsen clearly intended to represent Lovborg as a figure of undisciplined genius, a man whose capacity for passion, even if manifested in debauchery, contrasts alluringly with Tesman's effete conventionality. Yet in this performance Hedda displays no more respect for Lovborg than for anyone else, a major misinterpretation but understandable in view of Toope's characterization. His Lovborg is weak, sulky, and scarcely more worthy of Hedda's interest than Tesman. His only intensity comes in response to Hedda's baiting, and he conveys it as a kind of impotent...
...skein that links all this apparent disparity: "Just about everything I've written touches on subjects that interested me as a kid." The third child of a doctor who worked regularly with Princeton athletes, McPhee heard about sports as far back as he can remember. His passion for games grew, but his physique failed to keep pace; the aspiring basketball star topped out at 5 ft. 7 in. Summers were spent outdoors, camping and canoeing. McPhee also learned that he liked to tell stories. "Not made-up ones," he recalls. "I tried to find dazzling things to say about...
Woodburners are proclaiming their passion with bumper stickers on gas guzzlers. One message: BURN WOOD. BE A SON OF A BIRCH. There is even a magazine for the hot-stove league: Wood Burning Quarterly and Home Energy Digest, which, after only 18 months, is in the black with a circulation...
...small-time hoods of "Lido Shuffle," still looking for that one last job to put them on Easy Street. This time, the tune is much more funky, a roaring big-band epic that pulls out all the stops. Steve Lukather kicks in a gine guitar solo here, and its passion points up the relative sterility of all the hoopla framing it. (Jay Graydon, lately of "Doonesbury" fame, has the same effect on "Then She Walked Away"--his ringing, simple guitar makes the rest of the elaborate orchestration sound a bit silly...