Word: passional
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...Zealand Warriors. "I guess we'd always have enough numbers, but the competition would become a throwback. In the power factor, in the entertainment factor, it would be markedly inferior." But nothing about sport is as simple as it looks. In New Zealand, where rugby is the national passion, the rise in Polynesian participation appears to be at least one reason for the flight from the game of large numbers of comparatively slight boys, to the point where more New Zealanders now play soccer than the brutal 15-man game. Driving on Saturdays around Hawkes Bay, on New Zealand...
...Manniest, of them all. He approached film writing as a superior workman does a challenging job: total planning, total inspiration, hard work. And a respect for his craft. He was tough on other critics, and on himself, but he never demeaned the writing to which he brought so much passion and pain. "Criticism is very important, and difficult," he said in the Ollman interview. "I can't think of a better thing for a person to do." Surely no one did it better than Manny Farber...
...Biden's biggest edge in the homestretch may have come, paradoxically, from his greatest liability: his personality. Obama is charismatic, but in tough political confrontations he can be cautious and reserved. A running mate who can add passion to the coming battles, Biden has a fire-in-the-belly quality Obama lacks. That spunk first vaulted Biden to the Senate by a narrow margin in 1972 over an aging incumbent, and it also gave him an edge over the more sedate finalists for the ticket, Indiana's Evan Bayh and Virginia's Tim Kaine...
...Obama gave a solid, substantive answer. What he should have said was, "That's outrageous! Why don't we go over there right now - I'd like to thank them for their service and see what we can do to help." That sort of spontaneity - that sort of real passion - is what's missing from this candidacy. I suspect Obama will have a hard time winning unless he finds some...
...school gym, "We can't keep doing the things we've been doing and expect a different result." It's a message his campaign organization has taken to heart. Obama's is the first truly wired campaign, seamlessly integrating the networking power of technology with the flesh-and-blood passion of a social movement. His people get the fact that the Internet is more than television with a keyboard attached. It is the greatest tool ever invented for connecting people to others who share their interests. For decades, the Democratic Party has relied on outside allies to deliver its votes...