Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing but think about my country," he says. "The United States is my theme, and all that dwell in it." Vidal's gibes at the nation's expense are based on something more than casual distaste; they bear the stamp of a long-and unrequited-passion. "The only thing I've ever really wanted in my life," he says without irony, "was to be President...
Publication of the report outraged the Administration and Kissinger. He is censured by the report for having "a passion for secrecy" and issuing statements "at variance with facts." Already depressed and testy, Kissinger was at the outer limits of his self-control when asked at a press conference about the House committee's charges. He exploded, accusing the committee of misusing classified information "in a tendentious, misleading and totally irresponsible fashion [that] has already done damage to the foreign policy of the U.S." Kissinger charged the committee with practicing "a new version of McCarthyism" and called its report...
...atop the 54th floor of a new apartment building, the four-story penthouse was to include a solarium kitchen, a library, pool, four bedrooms, office space for up to seven secretaries, a multilevel grand salon and more than 1,500 sq. ft. of terrace for Mott's main passion: organic vegetable gardening. The fastest-growing item at Mott's midtown Xanadu, however, was the construction bill, which climbed from a projected $1.6 million to $3.2 million. So last week Mott sadly backed out of the deal, $300,000 poorer thanks to legal and engineering costs, and began...
...Virgin and the Gypsy is a cariacture of D. H. Lawrence at his worst--all violent passion and sensuality in lush color without any character development. The only relief in this romantic melodrama comes when a flood washes away the virgin's shrewish grandmother and the entire vile English country estate to our intense delight. Another dull melodrama to be avoided is Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon, unless you go for two and a half hour fag jokes in the guise of sympathy and relevance. Al Pacino's acting is excellent but does not overcome the ridiculous role...
...sailor abuses the woman, enacting sexual and emotional revenge for the humiliations visited by her social class on his and, inevitably, falls in love with her at the same time. Wertmuller's movies are about states of passion and the ways they change-and often corrupt -political allegiances and spiritual commitments...