Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with this story of an inescapable past is a more conventional one of an unattainable future. Terry Delaney is a night watchman and second-rank professional rugby player who suffers the double curse of discontent and lack of direction. He has no complaints about his wife but longs for passion. He hopes athletics can lead to a job in journalism or public relations, his vague image of an easy life. He is unsettled by the changes he sees in Roman Catholic tradition, epitomized by a closet-gay parish priest. When Delaney meets the Kabbelskis, Stanislaw's granddaughter Danielle seems, with...
While he was in prison, Ortega and Rosario Murillo, one of the leading poets in the Sandinista movement, exchanged poems. (Poetry is a national passion in Nicaragua.) Murillo, who was educated in a British convent school, helped Ortega stay in contact with other prisoners and the outside world. She later became his common-law wife...
...from the main producing countries, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Inspectors at Miami International Airport found a near- record shipment of 3,227 lbs. of cocaine in January aboard a cargo jet owned by Avianca, the Colombian national airline. Agents discovered the drug when they opened 55-gal. barrels of passion fruit in syrup and found football- shaped containers of coke bobbing in the mixture...
...passion. Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis) is a bleach-blond tough with a National Front past. His boyhood pal Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is the son of an impoverished Pakistani writer (Roshan Seth) and the nephew of a gaudy entrepreneur (Saeed Jaffrey). Uncle is a sharp businessman but unlucky with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple...
...PROBLEM WITH Passion is not that anything about the Leverett House production is especially bad--many of the performances and parts of the direction are really very good--but rather that the play itself has neither the insight nor the levity to overcome its trite subject matter...