Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other regions of the country enamored of college football, there is never just one rallying point, and almost always a cluster of them. For no matter how dominant the University is, some will always root for State, never mind A & M. Over in Omaha, Creighton has stirred a certain passion for basketball, but to most Nebraskans this must seem as wrongheaded as when Creighton dropped football in the '40s. On the farm lands, in the sandhills, across the cattle country, through the Platte River Valley, as well as in downtown Lincoln and Omaha-really the only two cities...
...must confess, the production has some of the concentrated impact of my original tale of Carmen. You know, the qualities that Nietzsche, just the other day, was saying you had drawn from me-"the logic in passion, the shortest line, the harsh necessity...
...seaweed, prunes and green grapes. Duck is to the southwest what steak is to Texas, observes Wolfert, whose 30 or so recipes for the bird range from duck sausage with green apples and chestnuts to duck breasts with capers and marrow. Above all, the region is unified in its passion for confits, or preserved meats...
Streisand first read the Singer story in 1968, the year of her Funny Girl movie debut, and the single-minded passion that she brought to the project encourages skepticism. Like Streisand and the character she plays, Yentl is indeed aggressive, exotic, oversize, polarizing. No one is likely to react indifferently to this one-woman band. But as the long, lush picture gains momentum and confidence, it admits the viewer to a beguiling world where emotions can bubble out of low comedy, where familial friendship and carnal love intersect, where the dead exert their tenacious influence on the living...
...Alan Bergman have constructed the score as Yentl's running Talmudic commentary on the genesis of her womanly desires. (That's why Patinkin doesn't sing.) The songs begin in a liturgical mode, heavy on recitative and minor chords. As Yentl enters the real world of passion and deceit, the melodies become more secular, and by midpoint, when Yentl's thoughts turn from intellectual to sexual love, the songs are swimming strongly in the American pop mainstream. It is the most romantic, coherent and sophisticated original movie score since Gigi a quarter-century...