Word: passional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Australian Prime Minister John Howard rarely misses an opportunity to comment on his greatest passion: cricket. An obsessive fan of the game?Australians call him a "cricket tragic"?it surprised few to hear that Howard holds an opinion on an issue that is the talk of the international cricket fraternity: Is Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, a slow bowler with the uncommon ability to spin a ball like a top, a "chucker"? Howard didn't hesitate: "Yes," he told supporters at a political function in rural Australia last month. Howard had, in effect, labeled the most successful bowler in cricket...
...temptation to switch into planning overdrive is natural for expats with a passion for their host country. Steven Horowitz, an advertising executive who has lived in Japan for five years, says he begins flipping through his "mental Rolodex" of must-see restaurants and attractions whenever relatives are planning to visit. But for those hosting first-time visitors, he has two pieces of advice: "Keep it simple," and "Maps, maps, maps!" Ideally, there should not just be maps but a homemade travel pack with a phone card or rental cell phone, plus a list of emergency numbers and translations...
...closing night in two weeks flat). I'm won over by the subtle elegance of its productions, with scenic consultant John Lee Beatty merely suggesting the settings in front of the stage-wide bandstand that holds Rob Fisher's Coffee Club Orchestra. I'm awed by the scholarly passion for detail Fisher, Encores!' musical director, brings to the restoring of each score...
...Murphy is an actress I've followed since 1984, when at 25 she played the mother in Galt MacDermot's "The Human Comedy." She was a smash as an amnesiac chanteuse in the off-Broadway "Song of Singapore," as the obsessive jilted lover in Stephen Sondheim's "Passion" and as a dark-hued Anna in the 1996 Broadway revival of "The King and I." Here she uses her kabuki face to all manner of deadpan delight, then goes into giddy spasms in the dance numbers. She's Buster Keaton in repose, Diane Keaton in motion. Her and the show...
While she has been a multi-tasker at Harvard, in the end Zakrzewski knows that music and performance will always be her primary passion...