Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some exhibitions seem to be beyond full criticism. They redefine their subject, the image of an artist, for a generation, and do it with the utmost sympathy and scholarly passion. The presentation of paintings and drawings of Antoine Watteau that opened last month at the National Gallery in Washington, and will be seen (with various additions and subtractions) at the Grand Palais in Paris during the winter and in Berlin through the spring of 1985, is such an event. So much of the work is fragile, and loans are so difficult to negotiate, that this is the first major international...
Spurred by the energy crunch, perhaps by the movie Breaking Away, the story of a youth intent on becoming a world-class racer, the country is developing a passion for pedaling. In 1983 the U.S. Cycling Federation issued 16,000 racing permits (9,000 in 1970); 10 million bikes will be shipped to stores for the country's 100 million riders. So it should have come as no surprise that 200,000 flag-waving aficionados gathered by the tile-roofed, half-a-million-dollar ranch homes in Mission Viejo, 50 miles south of Los Angeles...
...conspicuously a loser. Speaking with a strikingly distinctive voice, this hapless character is alternately self-pitying and self-mocking, weepily sentimental and stonily sharp-witted. He unceasingly endures abuse, rejection, infidelity, abandonment and most of the other mortifications that can befall a man in the throes of passion...
...campaign that was almost totally devoid of passion, the finale was decidedly dramatic. At Labor Party headquarters in a Tel Aviv hotel, supporters giddy with hope eagerly awaited the returns. Across town, in an auditorium draped in blue-and-white bunting, Likud backers stood around glumly, like pallbearers at a funeral. At 10 p.m., as polls closed around the country, all eyes at both headquarters turned to the TV screens. But wait. Anchorman Haim Yavin announced that there would be a delay before the first projections could be broadcast; an error had been made in feeding data into the computers...
...called People's Plebiscite, which will in fact legalize dictatorship, must be stopped. Aubrey writes letters to editors, signs manifestoes. Dina looks on skeptically: "His passion, his sincerity, could not be disputed. The only thing that could be disputed was his capacity to stem the tide of events." Aubrey's spirits soar when Alexander Richer, an old college friend and now a prominent British journalist, responds to a whim and decides to visit Cuyama for a few days. Aubrey tells Dina: "It's a great coup for us to have him' coming out here." Perhaps...