Word: passional
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...Little Night Yiddish,” written and directed by Togut, features traditional Jewish songs in their original Yiddish book-ended by scripted English sequences that she authored. This work has been the culmination of Togut’s Yiddish studies at Harvard as well as her passion for Jewish culture. “I feel like I am going out with a bang,” she says.Togut began studying Yiddish her freshman year in part to satisfy Harvard’s language requirement. “Before I went to college, I decided that I had a language...
...which marked the first major leading role of fellow Spaniard Penlope Cruz, harked back to a less complicated time, on the eve of dictator Francisco Franco's rise. With a deft ability to move between drama and levity, innocence and anguish, he is credited with inspiring anew Spaniards' passion for film in the postwar...
...editors of TIME, who edit with the care of surgeons, the sensitivity of angels and the wisdom of the better class of Supreme Court Justices.) I have spent most of my professional life as an editor. When editors get together, they complain about writers with the same passion that writers bring to complaining about editors...
...play in the presence of two legends of the US Women’s soccer scene is a far cry from passing with her brother in their back garden, growing up in Princeton, New Jersey. Immersed in a family culture where soccer was a second language, her trademark passion and professionalism was evident from an early age.“I’ve played soccer ever since I could remember,” she recalls. “Whether it was just me and my brother playing in the back yard every day, or whether it was going...
...dropped her bags and disappeared into Nicaragua for a year to cover the Sandinistas and the contras. Upon her return, she hopscotched from World-section writer to deputy New York bureau chief to associate editor in the Arts section, where she reported about books, movies, music and her greatest passion: the theater...