Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theater is the theater, a faith taken on faith, a seraphic dream from which none of the participants ever fully awaken. The motive power of The Dresser is that passion...
...totally historical the Phoenix's 15-year retrospective really is. There is one great paragraph in the current Express--part of a scenario about two people who meet an automatic money machine. "My impression is that if these two had met five, or certainly, ten years ago, their genuine passion would have reflected a public spirit which suggested that what was worth wanting was worth attempting. Presently, they have encountered a public dampness which dictates that what is worth having is worth putting into Money Market funds..." The diagnosis is very correct; the problem is that the Cambridge Express...
...answer is probably yes on both counts. Giamatti has a highly refined passion for paradox, a humanist sensibility that is both invoked and evoked repeatedly in every essay, and on nearly every page of this elegantly written book. Winning and bit-time athletics have apparently gone hand-in-hand, but Giamatti is capable of drawing a sharp distinction between the two, and pointing out a hidden incompatibility. Yet perhaps the primary weakness--as well as the primary strength--of this collection is the difficulty the reader shares with Giamatti of reconciling the conflicting notions he posits...
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, Hair was a living, crying document of the agonies and ecstasies of the sixties. Today it's a period piece. While the original play had excitement, color, and passion, it's risky to try to clothe the show in modern dress and short hair without cheapening its spirit. The production now playing at the Institute of Politics uses a totally new plot as an excuse to string together the original songs. Although the show tries valiantly for three full hours, it never comes to life...
...often inane. When the music swelled, and Fred took Ginger by the hand, and she leaned into his body, and the dance began, a more beautiful story was told: of the emotions only motion can convey, of two people's need for transcendence, of the perfect fusion of passion and technique into a delicate, sensual mating dance...