Word: passional
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...serves to declare to the world that the owner has no self-confidence and no sense of aesthetics or economics. Debbie Fields Las Vegas Hail to the Chef Joel Stein's tribute to Julia Child, "Living Through Better Cooking," was right on the mark [Aug. 23]. I owe my passion for cooking in large part to this remarkable woman. I watched her regularly throughout her long television career, and I still refer to several of her books. My favorite is her masterpiece, The Way to Cook. At first, the definite article in the title seemed a bit presumptuous...
...nation's first M.B.A. President, Bush took to the White House a businessman's case-study training rather than a lawyer's conceptual toolbox. But if a concept will solve a problem, he can embrace it with a convert's passion. Once he was convinced that phonics worked, he put the reading theory at the center of his Texas education plan. A similar thing happened on the way to war. In that case the concept was the neoconservatives' largely academic belief in the transforming power of freedom in the Middle East. The neocons' vision to remake the world...
...with group yoga, which is followed by a healthy dose of ribbing by the director. "I directed Gabriel Byrne entirely in a Ugandan accent," she says proudly. How will her move into more mainstream films affect this familial way of working? Nair isn't too apprehensive. "When I have passion for something," she says, "I'm a weirdly kind of fearless person...
Like a Last Supper print on the dining-room wall, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ--on DVD this week, untainted by extras--is sure to be a must-own for millions of Christians. But maybe not a must-watch. In a theater, viewers were riveted to their seats watching the Godman's ordeal. At home, many will squeamishly fast-forward through this edifying gauntlet of Kick-the-Christ...
Parents who want the Gospel without the gore can try The Animated Passion, with seven sing-along hymns, a blue-eyed Jesus enduring most of his pain off-camera, and a stodgy illustrative style. The less pious will turn to a South Park DVD, The Passion of the Jew, with Cartman as a neo--Hitler youth and Gibson as a raving loony. It's funny-angry, but for the gang's sturdiest liturgical statement, go to Season 4's Do the Handicapped Go to Hell? and its sequel, Probably. --By Richard Corliss