Word: passional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hero. None of that cold-eyed passion for historical reality carried over in his pupils' work. Ingres inherited his cold eye, but turned it on unimaginable odalisques and comfortable patrons. His other illustrious pupil, Antoine-Jean Gros, almost reversed the master by ushering in a new school of romantic pageantry. Like David, Gros became caught up in the whirlwind of contemporary politics. Through Josephine, he met Bonaparte in 1796, was given a role in the French army's confiscation of Italian art treasures, then taken into Napoleon's entourage...
TRUE GRIT. John Wayne, 62, gallops off into his sunset years as Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed federal marshal with an indiscriminate passion for justice, bullets and booze. The rest of the cast are only props to support The Duke in his best performance in a decade...
...curtain raiser, appropriately titled Silence, presents two men and a woman (Anthony Bate, Norman Rodway, Frances Cuka) seated in the disembodied setting of a hazily mirrored stage and backdrop. They all have monologues to recite about loneliness and remembered passion. But each monologue is fragmented, interspersed with the others, phrased, sometimes from the point of view of age, sometimes of youth-and always arranged around tense, troubled silences. Under Peter Hall's sensitive direction, it soon becomes evident that Pinter is using these jagged aural spaces to signify not only the passage of time but also the distance between...
BLOBBING DAMPLY up the grand stairway of the Agassiz Theatre, to keep his appointment with Timothy Mayer's masterful staging of Jesus (A Passion Play for Cambridge), this reviewer passed by Peter W. Johnson--a Technical Director qualified to retire the title--locked in brief colloquy with a bearded minion. A conversation was overheard. Quoth the minion: "There are no more weights." Replied Johnson: "Well...use anything...
...primary question raised by the New Testament legend is presently unanswerable: "Why that man, at that time and place?" Discreetly, this production chooses to preserver that primary mystery, eschewing, for example, the tempting version of Christ as activist-charismatic--the ultimate field organizer. Instead, this passion play battens on the mystery itself, as it moves toward an answer to a major secondary query: "Whence the preternatural staying power of this simple narrative...