Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glenn's political style is almost the opposite of that of his chief opponent. Mondale, 55, the consummate politician, is wooing a traditional coalition of Democratic voting blocs with calculated passion, soothing rhetoric and promises, promises. By the beginning of April he had raised $2.4 million, far more than any of his rivals...
Perhaps these occasional passions for her directors and leading men, beginning with the first cry of "Action!" and ending with the final cut, are pacts she makes for art, romance and commerce. Kinski acts on instinct?great instincts?not from technique. "I don't understand acting except while I'm doing it," she asserts. "And sometimes not even then." Her Method is a kind of controlled madness. For her, each new film is a fairy tale she can believe in; she is the sleeping beauty, and her director is the prince whose talent and passion will convince...
Purists may object to the musical cuts and to the startling extension of a couple of ensemble numbers. But such considerations are minor when weighed against the film's headlong vitality and passion. Zeffirelli has captured Verdi's force in a rare, powerful way. -By Michael Walsh
...sense, it is the strength of the protestors' empathy that makes their cause questionable. In their passion, they forget the enormous contributions to man's scientific progress, particularly in medicine, that animal research has made. The pamphlets put out by the Mobilization for Animals organization rely on anecdotes of horrifying animal tortures and pictures of the suffering victims. They ignore the fact that most research involves no pain and that all animal research has some scientific justification--though it may not be immediately clear to laymen...
...high profile, thanks to the PBS television series Previn and the Pittsburgh. Similar in sound to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony is a dark-toned ensemble that is especially good in the romantic showpieces and in the music of English composers like Elgar and Vaughan Williams, a passion of the England-based Previn...