Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shopping malls of America, where the nation's largest booksellers ordered all copies of The Satanic Verses removed from the shelves. Suddenly the name Salman Rushdie was on the lips of millions, many reviling him but others expressing sympathy and genuinely wondering how a novel could elicit such deadly passion. The dispute reminded Westerners once again of the zealous rage that Khomeini is capable of; it also raised questions about how free societies can best protect themselves and their citizens against so furious and mercurial a form of intimidation...
That idea led to the cherubic figure of William Christie, 44, a transplanted American with a passion for neglected composers like Lully. With degrees from $ both Harvard and Yale, Christie went to France nearly two decades ago to be a harpsichordist (he had been a student of Ralph Kirkpatrick), then founded a flourishing chamber ensemble called Les Arts Florissants, then became the first American professor at the Paris Conservatoire...
...felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from the same deep pools of passion and longing for a voice...
...willing and brave enough to risk controversial roles like 'Crimes of Passion' and `Julia and Julia,' and potentially unglamorous roles like `Peggy Sue Got Married,'" said Dwyang. "She's played both the femme fatale and the quintessential modern romantic commedienne--that's versatility for you. She resists typecasting...
...Reagan's long life, humor has never deserted him. And it did not in his last act. At one of the farewells, his staff gave him a bridle, leather gloves and other equipment for his passion of horseback riding. Reagan quipped that when he reached his ranch, he would get the horse. Not to be outdone, two Reagan aides the next morning burst into the Oval Office dressed in a horse costume, the new gear in place. Reagan took one look, laughed heartily and, without missing a beat, turned to his mischievous chief of staff, Kenneth Duberstein, and hauled...