Word: passional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restitution. If Blanche can use her spiritual powers to track down the heir, there is a pretty piece of change in it for her As Blanche and Lumley pursue the loot they discover that the Rainbird heir is a prosperous young jeweler named Adamson (William Devane), who combines his passion for gems with a taste for kidnaping. Ransom for his victims is demanded-and delivered-in the form of precious stones. The profit margin is high, and Adamson's personal life flourishes too: criminality sharpens his carnal appetites, which are centered mostly around Fran (Karen Black), his partner...
...other teams, and the boozy Buttermaker is a fitting leader for them. A former minor league pro now reduced to cleaning pools for a living, Butter-maker has no particular affection for kids. He does not care much for baseball, either. Just now, boilermakers are his main passion...
...year, Austin's all-seeing artificial eye nearly popped out of his head. Who could blame him? Jaime looked smashing, and as Steve's blood pressure climbed, so did the show's ratings. Explains willowy Lindsay Wagner, who plays Jaime: "Viewers tuned in to see whether passion could flow between two people who were part Timex." So many did so, in fact, that Jaime was spun out of Steve's life for a series...
Howard, 47, is a prolific translator and critic of poetry, as well as an indefatigable champion of younger poets. His five previous books of original poems were longer on erudition than passion. The same dry, academic rustle is audible at times in Fellow Feelings, but a number of poems seem lived rather than researched. An elegy to W.H. Auden begins with an epigrammatic snap that the late master might have enjoyed...
...this is by now a truism, director Lamont Johnson has the courage to make this one point unequivocally. The rest is pure, dumb contrivance: Stuart rapes Chris's little sister, Chris shoots him on the spot, and a contrite, now-sympathetic jury acquits her for her own crime of passion...