Word: passional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party in a bravely decorated basement apartment off Mount Auburn St., a former junior faculty member at Harvard clutches the obligatory glass of white wine and holds forth with some passion on the subject of how poorly Harvard treats his class...
Carter glories in his access to movie libraries and is wallowing in classics like the Humphrey Bogart pictures. He tramps the trails of the Catoctin Mountains cataloguing the birds. He has failed to develop a passion for chocolate mousse despite exposure to such dishes at state dinners. He carefully monitors his allergies, skirting Swiss cheese, lima beans and hops (Billy has no such trouble). He works hard at being a father and insists that the presidential schedule bend around Amy's violin recitals and special school days...
...Untrue, offensive, cheap: as a TV production, the film is an insult to those who perished and to those who survived. What you have seen on the screen is not what happened there." But Wiesel has written almost obsessively about the Holocaust; he has a kind of morally proprietary passion about it. He is a keeper of the flame, a visionary who sees the past as intensely as a prophet sees the future. Many more Americans seemed to agree with Mayer Fruchter, a New York cab driver who was imprisoned at Buchenwald at the same time as Wiesel...
...film as an aspiring ballerina who rises to partnership with Baryshnikov not only made her a celebrity but also prompted her to take acting and singing lessons-though only for a while. She is not interested in an acting career and has refused several film offers. Dance remains her passion: "I love the physicality of it all." Like Emilia in The Turning Point, she is the daughter of two dancers who ran a small ballet school. Her special gifts are a flowing lyricism and a knack for acting. Like Gelsey, Leslie moved through the School of American Ballet and Balanchine...
...passion toward the morning that