Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These characters are brilliant. Their passion and cleverness never flag, and they make Lion an astounding play to watch--and probably to read as well. And the able crew of Dunster House dramatists rises admirably to the challenge of getting through the many, many, many such exchanges, and navigates the audience through a brisk but shattering evening of theater. Most impressive, perhaps, is their success in giving some degree of movement and unity to what could be just an endless succession of one-liners. For all the characters actually accomplish, Lion could plausibly begin or end at any scene change...
Currently on a year-long leave from his country's foreign services as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), he speaks with passion about an area of the world--Asia--where he has spent much of his adult life. His career beginning in 1961. Oberg was assigned, fresh out of law school, to the Swedish mission in Jakarta. He then moved on to Thailand but returned home in 1965 to take charge of the Asian affairs bureau in Stockholm. For the next five years, Oberg helped mediate between the United States and Hanoi. In 1970, he opened...
Oberg shows as much passion for Swedish politics as he does for international affairs and obviously admires Palme greatly. Both men are international and share somewhat futuristic ideas about what a modern society should look like...
...brilliant but erratic solo career--has just released what may be his most powerful musical statement. The Blue Mask is the work of a mature artist; the hostility and bitterness of the past that came to the fore on the successful Sally Can't Dance have given way to passion and love with an every-present undercurrent of anger. Max's may be dead and the Underground buried, but with The Blue Mask, Reed displays at 40 the vigor of a forever-young rocker...
Trust language, the poem concludes, helping to make its own case in the process. A kiss, under ideal conditions, combines technical expertise with passion; The Kiss reproduces and preserves both...