Word: passionate
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...Naples, Italy, pizza is passion. At the risk of starting a food fight, I'll venture to say that Ernesto Cacialli of Pizzaiolo del Presidente, named in honor of former U.S. President and Cacialli pizza fan Bill Clinton, makes the best pizza in Naples, which would also imply the best pizza in the world. He makes the classic thin, crusty Neapolitan pizza with a scrape of smashed tomato and choice of toppings - as do hundreds of other places in town. The most iconic are the margherita (tomato, buffalo mozzarella and basil) and marinara (tomato, garlic, oregano and olive...
...Calatrava's passion for the project is particularly notable because opera is, in many places, a dying art. Long-established houses like Milan's La Scala, Berlin's Deutsche Oper and even New York City's Met struggle to fill seats. The reasons for opera's slow decline are legion. Classical music critic and consultant Greg Sandow points to governments' dwindling support of the arts, a paucity of singers with the ability to perform the standard repertoire, and above all, audiences that look elsewhere for entertainment...
...instant. Civilizations are piled on top of one another (Hebrew, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Hellenistic, Maccabean, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Egyptian, crusader, Mameluke, Ottoman, on and on), all the laminations that conquerors have left in the earth there -- a rich debris of meanings and promises and desires. The accumulation of passion and memory, so much of it implicated with God, can make the land seem at times both wondrous and psychotic. There are certain parallels between Israel and America -- both nations born with a mission, both ingatherings of people from around the world. In a curious way, part of the genius...
Kyla J. Grigg ’07, who is working on developing a microrobotic fish, was initially attracted to Wood’s lab by his passion and excitement for robotics...
...stop the history tour here, in part because I've written about Kurtzman and EC comics at length on this site, in part because Andrew Arnold has written with a scholar's eloquence and a fan's passion on the later artists in the Masters of American Comics show...