Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soft. Not on the crooks, mind you, they still get their just deserts. On himself. That's right, there's a woman in this one, and Harry falls for her (and she for him). As if to underscore the new factor of emotional involvement as opposed to simple animal passion, the usual scenes of sexual conquest are conspicuous only by their absence. The substitutes, however, are much better than the originals. The scene where Harry tells his partner, Inspector Moore (Tyne Daly), (much to his initial dismay) that "a guy could do a lot worse than having...
...difference between R.R. and most of her rivals is intensity. Almost all the others write in pink ink about horse-and-carriage love and marriage; Rogers pumps out purple prose about red-blooded males and females living at white heat in electric-blue relationships. Passion drives her tales, and passion to Rogers is not a pretty thing. It is a volcano of hatred that relieves itself in violent sexual expression. In most histo-romances, the climax is the kiss, but Rogers realistically noted that a new mass market for pornography exists -and that vast numbers of respectable women would become...
...larger than the Super Bowl's TV audience. Only the World Cup soccer final, a few heavyweight championship fights, and the Olympics attract a bigger one-day sports audience. All are events of worldwide interest, steeped in tradition. The Super Bowl spectacle pivots around a grand, but parochial American passion. It was born a mere decade ago, the child of technology, a unique combination of slick and schlock with no history at all save a profound connection to a taproot of the human psyche...
...True Passion. Daley not only knew how to run a political machine (a word he hated), he also had the rare knack of governing a city. "Chicago works" became a commonplace. Said Republican Governor-elect Jim Thompson, who as U.S. Attorney sent many Daley men to prison: "We lost in democracy, but we went ahead and became a great city...
Daley's true passion was Chicago. Son of a sheet-metal worker and labor organizer, Daley grew up in the blue-collar section of Bridgeport near the stockyards. Physically and mentally, he never strayed far. When he left his family's house, he moved only a few doors away, where he and Eleanor raised their seven children. Daley was a familiar figure at weddings, wakes and graduations. The Rev. John Lydon, the pastor of Daley's Roman Catholic parish, noted last week: "When he said, 'How are you?' he really wanted to know...