Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There followed over the next hours, as the state that nurtured Abraham Lincoln prepared to vote, electronic vignettes of all the contenders. John Anderson, billed as the candidate of ideas, was seen soaring and swooping, eyes nearly closed in his passion, resembling no one so much as the late Billy Sunday. George Bush, the cool Ivy Leaguer, appeared with his neck veins protruding, finger wagging, voice in upper fortissimo. Jimmy Carter was there too, via the tube, talking calmly from the White House as the world he helped to create seemed to be collapsing around...
...Equus. Like the psychiatrist in Equus, who examined the deranged boy who blinded horses, Dr. Livingstone quizzes Agnes only to receive similar rebuffs and elusively Delphic answers. Like the psychiatrist in Equus, who was forced to question his reasoned image of civilization vs. the boy's irrational Dionysian passion, the psychiatrist in Agnes of God is forced to question her reliance on scientific knowledge vs. Agnes' beatific display of faith...
Once Church gets going on a topic, a mere cover story cannot always contain his talent and energy, so he indulges a longtime passion for satire and verse. His Man of the Year story in January produced an Ayatullah Khomeini limerick ("too indecorous to quote," he says), and this month's Reagan cover story yielded a parody of an all-purpose campaign-trail press conference: "Q. Senator, what do you think of the new poll that shows you an overwhelming victor in North Dakota? A. I wish I could believe it, but it's wrong...
...Davis delivers every line with a vigor that imbues her character with a complexity and depth that is not written into the script. She moves as if she were on the stage--no action is taken for granted. Davis ignites her portrayal of Sybylla with an uncompromising zest, a passion for living. Sybylla becomes a firecracker, exploding in the face of the convention that surrounds her. In one scene she shoves Frank Hawdon, a relentless and bungling suitor, into a pen of sheep and later leaves him stranded, miles from anywhere, as she flies off with their carriage...
Though a professed atheist, Shaw was possessed by an evangelical passion. He was convinced that if spiritual power could be harnessed to material power, man would be transformed into a higher order of being. That is at the core of Major Barbara, which is being given a top-notch revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater. The motto of the Salvation Army is "Blood and Fire." Shaw paradoxically translates this into "Money and Gunpowder...