Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court painter are only alluded to, or take place offstage. The horrors of the Napoleonic invasion, reflected in Goya masterpieces like the stark, brutal The Third of May, 1808, are suggested only in hallucination. Nobody claims that art must imitate life. But the real Goya, a man of passion and power, is nowhere in evidence here...
...make Schlesinger reluctantly "apocalyptic," provoking him to his deepest moments. Nearly 25 years ago, he wrote that "history has always seemed to me primarily an art, a branch of literature." Today his neatly combed hair mussed, his bow tie askew, as it were, he writes with a new passion, as a vigorous elder concerned that the earth survive for future generations. It is an irony that he would be the first to appreciate: when he sounds least like a liberal, he sounds most like a historian, and an artist...
...only 16% lacking any such education at all. Her conclusion: teaching about birth control and pregnancy has no significant effect on the pregnancy rate among teens, presumably because teenagers are more emotional than rational about sex and its risks. Says Boston's Huriwitz: "Adolescent sex is spontaneous, based on passion and the moment, not thought and reason. They don't worry about AIDS because they think it will never happen to them, no matter what we tell them. And I don't know how we change that...
...Andrei Tarkovsky. The pleasures these films admit are rarefied: the meticulous placing of actors and objects in a frame, the charged and stately grace of a camera movement, the surreal images from someone else's dream. Yet you should also feel the spectacular unity of vision and visuals, of passion and method. Compared with The Sacrifice's art, the formal sophistication of even the best Hollywood movies seems superficially applied, like press-on nails and a styling...
...Graham endeared himself to Floridians through his once-a-week "workdays," when he would leave his desk to get the feel of a nonpolitical job: schoolteacher, hospital orderly, flight attendant, migrant farmer, even one night on the stage in The Fantasticks. That gave him a chance to indulge a passion his new Senate colleagues should keep in mind: Graham will burst into song at the slightest provocation, or none. Journalists who heard him warble Margaritaville on election eve can testify that his baritone is notable more for enthusiasm than for melodiousness...