Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...godsend for many shut-ins and others who are isolated from the community. For some enthusiasts, like Mrs. Patricia Schey ("Kissy Face") who monitors her "home base" 16 hours a day in Madison, Wis., it is more of a passion. Almost everyone, however, responds to what Manhattan Psychoanalyst Joel Kovel calls "CB's element of voyeurism." That aspect of the CB phenomenon has not been lost on Mitchell Brothers, the porno-film producers. They recently released an opus with the self-explanatory title C.B. Mamas...
...this musical is like watching a marauding shark becalmed in a suburban swimming pool. As an actor, Nicol Williamson radiates a sense of imminent danger, mercurial passion and magnetic authority in such a way that he could be every inch the awesome monarch that Henry VIII was. But in Rex he is submerged in a book that swamps that masterful Tudor reign with research-soaked tedium...
...opens a window on one woman's life and then permanently locks the door. The heiress, Catherine Sloper (Jane Alexander), is an awkward, self-denigrating, plain-featured girl who falls ardently in love with a handsome fortune hunter named Morris Townsend (David Selby). He knows how to simulate passion since money is his love...
Caldwell raises her arms and begins to conduct. A hundred arms are set in rhythmic motion and music fills the hall. The roar grows louder as the chorus begins singing St. John's Passion. Rick snaps pictures rapidly. He switches to his long lens for closeups of Caldwell. From the balcony her facial features are indistinguishable--only the reflection of the chandelier lights in her glasses can be discerned as she bobs her head up and down in time to her deliberate hand motions...
...beginning of the last century, a simple soldier, abused by his superiors and mocked by his fellows, suspects his mistress of infidelity and stabs her to death. The act is undeniably tragic, even fated, yet the soldier's motives remain unclear. Is the murder an act of passion, the frenzy of a man going mad, or an understandable reaction to a social degradation that has become unbearable...