Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...romantic indiscretion is just one of the recent and largely self- inflicted wounds sustained by Papandreou. A leftist who has dominated Greek politics with a mix of shrewdness and populist passion since taking office in 1981, he may have blown his chance of winning another term when elections are held by next June. Most politically explosive is the so-called Koskotas affair, Greece's biggest postwar banking scandal, which broke in October, just as Papandreou was returning to work after open-heart surgery. It has threatened to implicate two high-ranking government officials and has rocked his ruling Panhellenic Socialist...
...this "box spirit" innovation, the play remains essentially intact. The focus remains throughout on our crazed heroine, whose reputation precedes her. For, more than two millenia before Glenn Close wielded her first Ginsu or Farrah Fawcett burned her first Sealy mattress, there was Medea and her ignominious crimes of passion...
...father used to say politics is a passion. It's never been a passion for me ((but)) a sense of duty. In the worst moments, that sense did not allow me to become demoralized...
...quiet life of Fran Stephanie Trutt, there seemed to be only one abiding passion: protecting dogs from abuse. The 33-year-old substitute teacher from Queens, N.Y., devoted much of her free time to her canine crusade. She fed neighborhood strays, marched in antivivisection protests and pushed for legislation outlawing cruelty to animals. Her mother told reporters last week, "She was obsessed with animals, particularly dogs, that's the truth...
...weeks ago, Trutt's passion came dangerously close to exploding. Acting on a tip from an informant, police in Norwalk, Conn., arrested Trutt seconds after she placed a powerful pipe bomb studded with roofing nails outside the headquarters of the U.S. Surgical Corp., a firm that animal-rights activists have accused of cruelty to the dogs it uses for medical research and training. On the seat of Trutt's rented Chevy pickup was a remote-controlled detonator from which a battery had been removed to prevent an accidental explosion. A subsequent search of her apartment turned up three more bombs...