Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...focus and perhaps detracts from the overall effect of the novel. Piercy, at times, achieves quite a bit with both strands. For those who are fans of her candidly graphic powerful poetry, Piercy's newest fiction may be a slight disappointment. But she remains a serious novelist whose passion for the truth about her characters cannot be ignored...
Among his 40-odd compositions are three symphonies, two string quartets, a mass, a requiem, two operas and a St. Lukers Passion...
DIED. Yigael Yadin, 67, Israel's premier archaeologist and the epitome of that nation's citizen-soldier-politician tradition, who twice set aside his passion for the past, first to become a hero of the 1948 war of independence and Israeli chief of staff from 1949 to '52, later to serve as Deputy Prime Minister under Menachem Begin from 1977 to '81; of a heart attack; in Hadera, Israel. As operations chief...
...even way up there at the top where the air is thin, Rubén Blades would seem a rare, highflying creature. His songs have not only rhythms that insinuate but lyrics that can touch the conscience with humane political passion. He has been a lawyer for a bank in Panama, a mail boy working for a Latin record company in New York City and one of the main perpetrators, with Trombonist Willie Colon, of Siembra, estimated to be the bestselling salsa album in history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella...
...Julia) are friends; Gilda (Jill Clayburgh) and Otto become lovers; Gilda dumps Otto for Leo; Gilda leaves them both for a stuffy art dealer; Otto and Leo liberate Gilda from genteel sobriety. In Coward's world the cabal of camaraderie must ever win out over the exclusivity of passion, and style consists of tiptoeing away from the mess one has made of one's life...