Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning of her research project, Anne feels certain that one area of her life is fixed and unchanging: "No one would ever know the passion she felt for her children. It was savage, lively, volatile. It would smash, in one minute, the image people had of her of someone who lived life serenely, steering always the same sure, slow course." Yet the more she learns about Caroline Watson, the more troubled Anne becomes. The artist had been, by any standards, a miserable mother. She had borne an illegitimate son in Paris and then, under parental pressure, abandoned...
...outside the Thomaskirche by both a full-length statue and, not far from the church, a bust dedicated by Felix Mendelssohn. Genius pays homage to even greater genius: it was the romantic Mendelssohn, a Christianized Jew, who in 1829 revived Bach's greatest religious work, the towering St. Matthew Passion, and in so doing unwittingly canonized...
What looks like an orgy, flirts with scandal, and sells like hot cakes? How about Obsession, the new fragrance from the guy who brought us women's jockey shorts, Calvin Klein, 42. "Who hasn't felt passion beyond reason?" asks Klein, who reasons that you do not have to go beyond passion to make a successful advertisement. His lubricious jeans ads and languorous underwear pitches have now been joined by a kinky perfume campaign. The print spot, shot by Photographer Bruce Weber, shows three apparently naked men coiled around a similarly unclad woman, all bathed in an inky blue tint...
Nicklaus has wended his way around the world not only digging divots but scraping new golf tracts out of mountainsides. Presumably he is motivated by something other than a passion for landscaping. Considering his accomplishments, no athlete has avoided arrogance better than Nicklaus, who has slipped as a golfer, even then maybe only as a putter, but is still not quite back to mortal at 45. "I had the confidence to try to be the best ever --you have to," he says. "But I never thought in terms of being it. I don't think even 20 years from...
Moore is an old pro, author of such surefooted novels as The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and The Luck of Ginger Coffey. But in Black Robe he slips between James Fenimore Cooper and Graham Greene, between a visually rich adventure yarn and lip service paid to human frailty and divine mercy. Nearly four-fifths of the novel is spent on the trail, providing the author with the simplest means of moving his story and creating suspense. The main test of wills occurs hastily in the last 50 pages and contains a solar eclipse that frightens off hostile Indians just...