Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Game shows are one of the embarrassing little secrets in American Pop culture. Even confessed TV addicts do not readily admit that they watch the games: it would be more respectable to concede a passion for The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo than The New High Rollers. But the games survive. Not only do they outlast their critics, but they also outlive scandals, inflation and the dye jobs on their M.C.s' hair. Currently there are 30 hours of game shows on the networks' weekly daytime schedules, not to mention the countless hours of syndicated games broadcast in the early...
Farley Mowat is a small, bearded Canadian who writes with a certain bitter charm about the thoughtless destruction of the Far North and its native inhabitants. He has a passion for permafrost, Eskimos, whales, seals and wolves. He has lived a chapped and manly life in rural Ontario, on the Keewatin Barren Lands and in balky old boats off Newfoundland...
...Greek tragedies move through pitch points of passion, moments when men look into the abyss of self-revelation. In Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, which begins this cycle, there are three pitch points. The first comes as Agamemnon reasons with his daughter about the need for her death. Shrapnel sensitively conveys the deep inner anguish of a man torn between duty to his country and love for his child. As Clytemnestra, Suzman moves through a parabola of feelings, marking her again as one of the finest actresses on the English-speaking stage. And as Buxton reaches the heartbreaking conclusion that...
...refrain of "Make it all so real" is made numbing by sheer repetition. And he squelches another glimmer of inspiration, the opening bars of "Romeo's Tune" with similar redundancy. This song, the album's current hit, features a handful of lilting syntheziser phrases evocative of young lover's passion. Forbert can't vary these phrases, however; they recur ad nauseum...
...passion or urgency carries this song, and no story either. "Romeo's Tune" is representative of other songs on the album, a collection of phrases strung together seemingly out of convenience...