Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is, similarly, no felt passion, political or otherwise, among the hit squad that controls Charlie or among its desperate opponents. So relentless are the obligations of this frenetic cast to the complexities of a story that involves locations in five countries, so tightly does Hill run his shuttle service between them, that there is no room for a particularizing word or gesture from anyone. The true subject here is the logistics of moviemaking, not the more wayward logic of history-tormented hearts and minds...
...Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away a heavenly three hours...
...never knew it wasn't toney any more to say toney." And he preaches, "Let us confess our belief: our deep, our religious belief. The great eternity of creation does not lie in the spirit, in the ideal. It lies in the everlasting and incalculable throb of passion and desire." On their way across the Alps and toward Italy, Johanna has sex with a young man who has temporarily joined their party, just as Frieda did under the same circumstances in 1912. Shortly after this incalculable throb, Mr. Noon abruptly ends...
...Lincoln Center in 1964, is a 2½-hour act of flagellation in which Arthur Miller's whips sear his own flesh and that of anyone he touched or who touched him. Two decades later, in John Tillinger's streamlined, harrowing off-Broadway revival, the scars of passion and pain still show. The wounds this play opened will not heal...
...politics passion unleashed by the presidential election has given a shot in the arm to campus political groups, who report substantially higher memberships than in previous years...