Word: passional
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...well to the stage. The fascination in this particular ballet lies in the buildup to the climactic fifth movement: as Phillip Glass’ music becomes more and more dramatic and exciting, the dancers drop clothes and spiral out of control in a frenzy of ecstatic and hopeless passion. But without the context of the first four movements, the fifth and only one presented looked too easy, and the dancers looked too happy, for Tharp’s imagination to come to life. Still, there was something about the ambition to end with a nonsensical, kaleidoscopic cataclysm that made...
...This show has literally hosted all the big names out there,” he said, mentioning Michelle Kwan and Sarah Hughes. “Skating has changed; Harvard has changed. Yet every year we find the same passion for philanthropy...
...site, and the user interface will be similar to Facebook’s to facilitate easy navigation. In his statement to his co-workers, Moskovitz wrote that his experience at Facebook will stay with him even after he departs. “Facebook has been my passion and my purpose for the past 5 years,” he wrote. “I will always bleed Facebook blue.” Zuckerberg had similarly fond words for his former partner. “Dustin has always had Facebook’s best interests at heart and will always...
...into the class by one of her female friends. For her, it's a way of filling an idle evening and getting a little exercise. For the teacher - played with arresting fire by Karina Fernandez - flamenco is life itself, a way of staking out and defending feminist territory. Her passion for the dance is obviously fueled by an unhappy love affair, the emotional details of which pour forth in the course of her instruction. Fernandez has only two scenes, but they are as potent as any you are likely to see in any movie and, like the rest...
...political context, all filtered through a self-conscious awareness of the present. Not to mention, it was very funny.“The Wordy Shipmates” takes the most engaging aspects of that book—its dry, biting wit; its playful narrative; and, most importantly, its passion for history—and enriches them. Free from that last book’s novel yet somewhat extraneous framing device, “The Wordy Shipmates” dives right into its historical focus, the life and times of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Among the vaunted cast...