Word: passional
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...TASTE OF BLUE HEAVEN With their striking blue feet and mildly gamy taste, French Bresse chickens have inspired passion among connoisseurs since gastronome Brillat-Savarin wrote about the velvety-textured birds in his 19th century The Physiology of Taste. True Bresse aren't available in the U.S., but now America has its own Blue Foot chickens. Bred in California, they're being served up in restaurants like Spago Palo Alto and New York City's Alain Ducasse. They're also available at dartagnan.com...
Today, however, polarizing is not always bad. The Passion of the Christ was $370 million domestic gross' worth of polarizing. And religion--specific, fraught, inflaming religion--can make for involving stories. In March HBO debuts Big Love, about fundamentalist polygamists in Utah. Devout Christian characters have shown up in ensembles from TNT's Wanted to CBS's Threshold. On FX's Rescue Me, Denis Leary's self-destructive firefighter has recurrent talks with--Zeitgeist alert!--Jesus. "I don't know who his agent is," says Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan, "but he's cleaning up this year...
...Time's exclusive excerpts from At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68, the final volume of Pulitzer prizewinner Taylor Branch's three-part history of the civil rights movement and its most charismatic leader. In this portrait of King as a man under siege, his passion and his rhetoric reach new levels of grace...
...works so magically on the visual, visceral and kinetic levels that an attentive viewer can feel the show's meaning. Seeing the show for the first time is like falling in love with a beautiful person who speaks another language: you miss the shadings but get the passion. Guiding your emotions is Ren? Dup?r?'s rich, throbbingly romantic music - easily the year's best new score. Sumptuous music, an engaging story, jaw-dropping visual grandeur... KA is what I said: great theater...
...fortunate to have as its new director an accomplished, open-minded and visionary leader in Governor Jeanne Shaheen. With Gov. Shaheen’s leadership, and with the passion and idealism of Harvard students, we are hopeful the IOP can one day live up to its enormous potential—and inspiring students to lives in public service will become a reality rather than a slogan...