Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shaw's heroes are men of moral passion." (English...
...dead. They disdain their own culture and borrow Britain's; they ignore the dust clouds of rebellion kicked up by Juan Peron's followers. The mood is languorous, but the snake of sensuality curls under the loose garments of the ruling class. When Miss Mary, out of pity and passion, takes the girls' handsome older brother to bed, the family must dismiss her, as Argentina under Peron will soon purge itself of the British influence...
...type out the manuscript and get the masterpiece off to the publishers. When the rejections pile up, she focuses her hopes on motherhood. When her pregnancy proves to be false, the only place to turn is inward, toward self-destruction. It is a fine irony that Zorg achieves a passion to answer hers only when he must help her complete her botched suicide...
...trace of irony, "is the most interesting fact of my life." He talks eagerly about going to games as a boy and watching the old Newark Bears of the International League along with his older brother Sanford and his father, now a retired insurance-company executive. His boyhood passion was the Brooklyn Dodgers. "I went off to college, and then the Dodgers went off to L.A.," he says, shaking his head. Eventually, he transferred his allegiance to the New York Mets. Last summer he had a dish antenna installed atop an outbuilding on the Connecticut property so he could follow...
Just as Mushnik is about to close his failing business, and Seymour to give up his unsung passion for Audrey, the plant steps in, and with its supernatural powers makes things go right for all concerned...