Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimes of Passion--Brattle Theatre...
...love affair with Seina led indirectly to his arrest. In this account, he and an unidentified corporal visited Stockholm together last year and went on a drinking binge in the Marine quarters at the U.S. embassy there. The booze loosened Lonetree enough for him not only to describe his passion for Seina but also to reveal hints of a KGB connection. Later, when the two drinking buddies met in Vienna, where Lonetree was posted after Moscow, they enjoyed another blast. This time Lonetree allegedly mentioned Bracy's involvement as well...
This, his most recent novel, combines the fantasy and magic that are the trademark of current Latin American fiction, but also of the author's own brand of passion and sexual intrigue. It is a virtuosic work that takes on a variety of ideas and stories, remaining engaging throughout its many facets. And still it attempts to go beyond its technical workmanship. It has a sympathetic message to deliver, revealed in the closing words: "More than to hug them, I want ... to talk to them ... and it could even be ... that we would understand each other...
...Japan, its products and trade policies. As reflected in polls and interviews by TIME correspondents across the country, those attitudes are a strange mixture of admiration, envy, resentment touched now and then by fear, and no little confusion. Protectionist sentiment does exist, but it is rarely voiced with much passion. And the sharpest criticisms of Tokyo's "unfair" trade policies are likely to be mixed with equally unsparing criticism -- sometimes from the same person -- of Americans for being less energetic and skillful than the ubiquitous Japanese...
Building highways will never be just another federal spending program. Few activities of government affect so many Americans daily, inspire such passion and profanity as those vast expanses of pavement stretching from horizon to horizon. That is why some White House aides believe Ronald Reagan was always doomed to lose last week's veto battle with the Senate. Was it the wrong war over the wrong issue at the wrong time? Wavering legislators, who once feared crossing the President, will not soon forget the day Reagan went hat in hand to the Senate needing one Republican vote and failed...