Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ascetic intellectual from the Cotswolds who ate nothing but nuts, raw fruits and vegetables (because of colitis picked up when he was an ambulance driver in World War I), preached from the pulpits of his beloved Anglican Church, and stoked the fires of British Socialism with a passion like...
...days as a house painter, Adolf Hitler had an amateur's passion for water colors and oils. As a youth he peddled his postcardlike views of Vienna, Munich and romantic ruins from door to door, sold some for roughly a dollar a daub...
...superb cast is colored with this fatal splendor, as the drama is played out among a group of characters whose violent passions spend themselves like a quick tropical downpour. Their story surges and eddies through a picture that matches the passion and profusion of Conrad's prose...
Rashomon. A powerful Japanese film about an ancient crime of passion, told with barbaric force (TIME...
...tone. Two comic sketches concern Uncle Silas, a village Falstaff, given to "beery winks from a bloodshot eye that was like a fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus arter you," Uncle Silas tells the story of a landlady with a passion for making puddings. One day, chance dropped her in his lap, and "arter that I wur never in want for the nicest bit o' pudden in the world...