Word: passional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fluid Drive. If the story line was somewhat benumbing, the dancing was dashing and vigorous. The audience, which included Princess Margaret and Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, was obviously enthralled. Nureyev's dancing was all primal passion, Fonteyn's all youthful savage grace. Petit's choreography had the clean, square-cut lines and angles of an abstract painting and included some wild acrobatics. At one point, Nureyev executed somersaults while with one hand supporting Fonteyn as she turned in arabesque...
...Whether your magazine is devoted to higher math or cheesecake, the same principles apply," Bethell says, and most of the changes in the Bulletin this fall reflect his passion for making it readable. The cover has been jazzed up with the addition of banner headlines to entice readers to articles inside. More and more the Bulletin has assumed a recognizable organization, as bric-a-brac like letters and book reviews appear issue after issue in the same part of the magazine. Bethell has added humorous pictures and a news-style headline to give the traditional sports column (always about...
...Justice Holmes once said that as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived." Mark Howe, who had been Holmes' law clerk in 1933-34 and was his biographer, stood in no peril. Howe combined meticulous scholarship in law and history with a life of political and social involvement...
...Vivi Gelker-in a scorching sensual pas de deux. The gangsters move in and repeatedly stab and then strangle him. But he refuses to die, and in desperation they hang him from a "column of lust." Still he lingers, and the streetwalker, strangely touched by the power of his passion, embraces him and, after one final moment of redemption, he expires...
...with a man who is made to "relive the whole of history in a single night's sleep." He is a pubkeeper named Porter, but his Freudian alias in the dream is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Why Earwicker? Well, Porter's night life is invaded by an incestuous passion for his daughter Isobel (Iseult-Isolde). The inadmissible word "incest" sneaks by as "insect," specifically "earwig." Thus the odd name, says Burgess, is "dreamily appropriate...