Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authorities did not pick up Boyce's scent until a sighting in Washington State in late July. They soon focused on the remote Olympic Peninsula. One reason: it is a habitat of falcons, Boyce's passion since childhood and the source of his nickname in a bestselling book about his spy exploits. FBI agents also suspected that Boyce was involved in a series of bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. A suspicious title switch on a boat license turned up the name Anthony E. Lester, of Beaver, a small town 50 miles west of Port Angeles. The photograph...
...including President François Mitterrand, seemed to have their noses buried in a book. The tome was France's latest rage, a 565-page edition of the apocalyptic predictions of Nostradamus, the Renaissance physician and astrologer. Noted the newsweekly Le Point in a cover story on the sudden French passion for bleak prophecies: "The man of this summer is not Mitterrand, but Nostradamus...
Actress Streep brings passion and skill to her richest role...
Franny. The eldest Berry daughter, who has inherited her mother's fudge-detector. Early on, for example, she perceives that timid Brother John is deeply in love with her. The unorthodox resolution of this passion is postponed many years because of Franny's reaction to being gang-raped by preppies. But honesty, blood ties and spunk prevail. She is avenged and finds happiness as a famous actress and wife of an ex-professional football player...
...Conrad, who rarely dealt with women or love in his books, did manage to have a great and unfulfilled passion for at least one woman, Janina Taube, the first love of his Cracow schooldays. "To the end of his life," writes Tennant, "Conrad would record no other occasion on which his heart leaped or his breath was taken away, and indeed it may be that in a sense this was his deepest sexual experience." Conrad was cooler and more practical in his feelings toward Jessie George, the Englishwoman he married in 1896 and used as a servant for most...