Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thousand Times Good-Night." In Cairo, Egypt, Aliyah Ibrahim got a divorce after telling the judge that her husband's passion for reading poetry aloud interfered with her sleep: "It is not worthwhile getting up in the middle of the night to listen to Shakespeare...
...passion for work started when he was orphaned at nine and had to make his own way through high school and college (Ohio State, Waynesburg, Rider and Rutgers), where he earned five degrees (B.S., A.B., B.C.S., M.C.S. and M.A.) and played football, basketball and baseball. This unrelenting will to work shows up in Bee's coaching. "I work my players harder [three hours a day] than any other coach in the business," Bee says pridefully. " work 'em, bawl 'em out, browbeat 'em . . . and they hate me." Though his players may not actually hate...
...strengths and weaknesses. Typically, it deals with delicate crises in the lives of ordinary folk, it rocks along with a suggestion of kindly irony, and it is written with a high polish that U.S. writers never achieve. But it also seems determinedly unambitious, self-consciously shy of mystery or passion...
...Bitter Rice" is a motley of tortured life, violent death, and primitive passion in Italian rice paddies. It is obviously an attempt to be starkly "real." The excesses make it intellectually unconvincing, and at the same time emotionally powerful...
...Quartet to a trio of short fiction films made separately at different times by three of Europe's top directors. Each story illustrates a different meaning of love: the kind that stirs the mating urge, the peasant's love of his land, the heights of religious passion. Each also serves to illustrate, with varying success, the characteristic styles of Italy's Roberto (Open City) Rossellini and France's Jean (Grand Illusion) Renoir and Marcel (The Baker's Wife) Pagnol. None of the films could conceivably have been made in Hollywood...