Word: passional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings: "You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all," a peevish Napoleon scrawled to Josephine from Verona. "Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry," wrote Oscar Wilde to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Complained Benjamin Franklin to his platonic French friend Mme. Brillon: "You find innumerable faults in me, whereas I see only one fault in you (but perhaps it is the fault of my glasses...
...well as the character of Fascist architecture; he floods the sound track with a blaring radio broadcast of the off-screen Hitler rally. Ultimately, A Special Day's apocalyptic atmosphere provides the perfect backdrop for its star's performance. When Antonietta seizes her moment of passion in this frigid world, Loren's warmth can-and does-burn up the screen.-Frank Rich
...past as the inhabitants of "The City of Dreadful Night" (his epithet for Boston). It is this kind of contradiction that gives depth to the character of someone it would otherwise be all to easy to dismiss as a facile, blotting-paper intellectual, a worthless dilettante with an inordinate passion for shop-girls, racehorses and opium (which he called his "black idol...
...revolution's leaders in "The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade." According to director Kerry Konrad '78, this play within a play, in which neither the passion of the revolution, of the marquis or of the inmates seems to know any bounds, is particularly suited to the Mainstage. When it opens there on November 2 with a cast of more than 40, its powerful "total theater" atmosphere might, in spite of the Marquis' conviction, have a dangerously revolutionary effect...
...first they seemed to be an odd pair-the introspective President, a cold-minded engineer with a passion to get every detail right, and the Bunyanesque extravert (the front license plate of his limousine on Inauguration Day proclaimed BERT; the rear one, LANCE), who cheerfully mangled facts in his haste to paint the big picture. But there were deep bonds between the two opposites. At 46, Lance was closer in age to the President, who is 52, than most of the young Georgians who made up the White House's inner circle. Like the Baptist President, Lance-a Methodist...