Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court on charges of Bunker's having tapped the phones of their father's business associates. The brothers protested that they had not known wiretapping was illegal and were acquitted, but two private detectives whom they had hired went to jail. Most of all, Bunker shares his father's passion for trading. Says he, speaking of race horses but expressing a philosophy that also governs his business dealings: "It's a thrill to watch one turn into a winner...
Hunt then developed a passion for silver. His bland understatement of the reason...
Elvis has a deeper reservoir of hatred and bitterness than anyone in popular music, or even the Viet Cong, driving him, they say, to compose madly into the night, compressing his rage into song after song, until this: music with a pulse sustained by passion and fear, energy driven by emotion, not (hello Mick Jagger) cocaine. And the tunes deliver. The glory of Get Happy!! is that Elvis has composed 18 fresh, interesting, accessible but not uncomplicated melodies, and has, with true artistry, wedded their substance perfectly to their sound. It may be his best album. Certainly, it surpasses...
...contort wildly, glaring unnervingly, distracting from his rigid nose and hard, flat mouth. Dourif's Haze is grotesque, a little man possessed by a shady demon. He believes in his Church Without Christ not with his soul--which is undeniably Christian--but with his body. It shakes with evangelical passion, with barely controlled violent passion capable of murder. And in an ultimate renouncement of Jesus, Haze is incapable of love...
...unlikely to escape frustration: Higgins is hopelessly hooked on the local baseball team. "The Red Sox are a religion," he concludes. "Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play...