Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best-informed and most sophisticated Soviet leader since Lenin. Western diplomats who visited him in Moscow early in his tenure were impressed by his command of facts and sardonic humor. But French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who met Andropov last February, found him "extraordinarily devoid of the passion and human warmth" that Russians often display...
Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi (Antilles). The minimalist sound track from the movie stands on its own as a symphonic suite of rare power and passion...
...Passion. The Jekyll of respectability duels with the Hyde of libido. Peter Nichols' unsettling domestic comedy survived a ragged Broadway production with many of its virtues (and Actress Roxanne Hart's Circean charms) intact...
Enter Geneva Spofford (Kelly McGillis), blond and gorgeous and irresistibly young, half his age and twice as mature. Can Gowan not have realized that women are attracted to the poor childish male more out of pity than passion? Gowan is hooked. His head, the resting place for a dead Siamese cat of hair, is filled with the stirrings of teen love; and his will, which had always moved by shrugs, now be comes a Koren cartoon of shaggy-doggedness. The poet will propose marriage. The nymph will break his heart...
...most significant, and not only because of its pedigree and former dominance. Most centrism is negative: afflicted by on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand passivity that searches constantly for the lowest common denominator, that seeks the neutrality of the center as a refuge from the passion of the extremes. Liberal internationalism is a passion for democratic principles, and for bold interventionist Government to carry them out. It is a standing challenge, a rebuke, to the rigidities and timidities of the newly dominant right and left. That is perhaps why it commands so large a following among intellectuals, even...