Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reviewer in London and New York City in the '50s and early '60s, he demonstrated an unequaled gift for capturing the theatrical moment in language charged with wit, passion and a vibrant vision of what theater might be and rarely was (or is). His pieces offered nothing less than his own tumultuously responsive self as the link by which a decaying medium could re-establish its connection with our public lives -- and our secret ones. His elegant disdain helped sweep the boards of the dusty verse drama that then passed for high seriousness, and of the cobwebbed comic conventions that...
...without romance. An odd-sounding phrase, perhaps, from the man who wrote the gushy words of head-over-heels devotion to Maria for West Side Story, the anthem to unrequited passion, Losing My Mind, for Follies and the rueful look at love out of synch, Send In the Clowns, for A Little Night Music. Each of the 14 shows for which he has been composer, lyricist or both has been shot through with emotion. His latest, Into the Woods, which opened last month and promptly became Broadway's newest musical hit, with advance sales climbing to $2.5 million, embraces every...
...this year' s passion to learn the inner secrets of presidential candidates outstripped our ability to interpret their meaning...
...course, sweetly, soberly mad. She fills the house with her collections of newspapers and tin cans, carries crackers around in case she runs into a woodland sprite, gets a kick out of it when the house is flooded, and is obviously an unfit stepparent. The outraged townsfolk, with their passion for convention, soon influence Lucille, the younger, staider of the girls. Ruth is made of sterner, that is dreamier, driftier stuff. Like Sylvie. Like Bill Forsyth. Not that he would ever pass judgment on the choices the women ultimately make. Or ask for an explanation. All he proposes is that...
...COVER: A passion for urban restoration brings polish and pizazz back downtown...