Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kasdan has succeeded handsomely. There is intricacy in the movements of his prowling camera, in the pairing of shots and situations from different parts of the film, in the gradual muting of the film's colors from flaming orange to blacks and whites as the lovers' passion turns to calculation. There is density in the plot construction, a maze that Ned must negotiate to save his life; Body Heat has more narrative drive, character congestion and sense of place than any original screenplay since Chinatown; yet it leaves room for some splendid young actors to breathe, to collaborate...
Raised in suburban Detroit, Runkle never abandoned the standard schoolgirl passion for horses. She took her veterinary degree at Michigan State University in 1976, and found a job with Dr. Mark Gerard, a noted racehorse vet in New York...
Meeting him in a public park, Alejandra chooses Martín as a companion for reasons that he never quite fathoms. She is erratic, tempestuous, given to long, unexplained absences and indifferent to Martín's growing passion and love. She takes him to the crumbling family home, populated now by a few aging relatives in varying stages of derangement. She suffers what appears to be an epileptic fit, recovers and falls asleep. Martín watches and realizes that he cannot save her: "It was as if the prince ... had at last found himself before the cavern...
There are other regional differences in the national passion. The steamy South-Central states consume less than half (10.77 qt. per digestive system per year) as much as the hungriest region, which is New England (21.86 qt.). Marketing men in the dairy industry have a suspicion that forthright Southeasterners will not eat what they cannot pronounce. A superpremium sells there under the no-foolin' name of Rich & Creamy...
French movies speak in whispers and prescribe moderation; they take stethoscope readings of the middle-class heart and find passion and accommodation, romance and regret, residing there. Though Bernice Rubens' novel and play I Sent a Letter to My Love are set in Wales, they have found a home on the coast of Brittany and with this small, splendid cast...