Word: passional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be a love-hate story about a cowboy and a naive, well-brought-up Eastern girl who had a passion for each other," says Brooke Hayward, 39, emphasizing the past tense of the verb. The story she describes will be told in her next book, a sequel to Haywire, the best-selling memoir of her childhood. This time the focus will be on Brooke's stormy, eight-year marriage to Actor-Director Dennis Hopper, which ended in 1969. As for Hopper's creative activities of late, he was sitting for a portrait by a longtime friend, Artist...
This becalmed, almost Chekhovian household is about to be consumed in a flash fire of passion. A young villager is hired to be both gardener and chauffeur. Oliver (Tom Waites) is a muscular lout and nothing to look at, but one lazy, empty afternoon, Molly seduces...
...proprietor of a 40-acre spread called the Musket Ranch and Trading Post, began collecting used tires before World War II. He sold his original hoard for a penny a pound in the wartime rush to find desperately needed rubber supplies. The war ended, but Heidelberger's passion for tires did not. Today, after more than 30 years of relentless collecting, he figures he has between 8 million and 12 million. His tires cover ten acres, rise to a 40-ft. peak and are a local landmark...
White-haired Fernand Braudel fingers a 13th century Florentine coin, its bronze surface green with age, as he muses on the grand passion of his life: the Mediterranean. "Everything about the Mediterranean has pleased me-the sea, the people, the food. It is a passion that burns you up. And nowadays, for me, the Mediterranean is too strong, too burning. It's all over...
...sweetest saxophone player (soprano and alto) this side of Stan Getz, Phil Woods is one of the toughest, most durable jazz masters. Originally a follower of Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Woods has survived the ups and downs of decades of jazz with a personal style that has never lost its passion or ingenuity. In this extended set, recorded during performance last November at the Showboat Lounge, Silver Spring. Md., he fronts a six-man combo working the mainstream of jazz today. Standard tunes are blended enticingly with originals by Pianist Mike Melillo, Guitarist Harry Leahey and Woods himself, and there...