Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attractive Japanese American who planned the itinerary. Though Chapman earned only $4 an hour as a security guard, money seems not to have been a problem: the couple lived in a $400-a-month apartment in a downtown Honolulu highrise, and Chapman was able to indulge his newest passion, art. He bought expensive works and last year purchased a $7,500 lithograph by Norman Rockwell. Like his earlier love of music, art became an obsession, and he would spend hours in Honolulu galleries and contact dealers all over the country for information on works in which he was interested...
...miscalculated, reflecting misunderstanding or deliberate ignorance about the way most murders involving firearms are committed. Most shootings are committed not by professional criminals, but by otherwise law-abiding citizens who, during fits of rage, turn hand-guns against close friends or relatives. Estimates suggest that these "crimes of passion" account for nearly four-fifths of all murders with guns in the United States each year...
...first place, an end to the production, sale and possession of all guns, including rifles would make it harder for anyone, including criminals, to get weapons. If hand-guns are eliminated, crimes of passion will decrease; if all weapons are eliminated, even premeditated crime will go down. It is worth-while noting that many of the most heinous murders of our age, including the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, were committed with rifles. These men would not have been so easily killed if strict rifle controls had been in place...
...very low key, all very businesslike. But the man whose passion is organization relishes horseplay in his private moments. For example, he does a first-rate imitation of George Washington trying to talk and straighten his wooden dentures at the same time. It is an act that will play well on tense White House evenings...
...Edna's quarreling begins to grate. Likewise, Simon is out of his league when he attempts to portray a nervous breakdown; as a result Achtman is forced to rely on a farcical style when Mel snaps. But if, in the end, he and McPhee don't possess the passion to enflame the big emotional speeches in some scenes, they make us care about Mel's and Edna's ups and downs, triumphs and hardships. And that's no small feat...