Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Englishman, a middle-aged newsman named Fowler (Michael Redgrave), whose pipedreams are provided by opium, and whose pipe is prepared by his pretty little Vietnamese mistress, Phuong. (Phuong is in the picture, but the opium is not.) Aside from Phuong (Giorgia Moll), the Englishman's principal passion is his uninvolvement, but the American wants to be mixed up in everything-particularly, Fowler decides, if it happens to be none of his damned business...
...world's most inflated currencies, and a credit rating so poor that even the Turkish Central Bank refuses to honor government orders to release foreign exchange. Neither near bankruptcy nor the appeals of his friends can persuade Menderes that the time has come to end his headlong passion for building and spending. To every suggestion for retrenchment, Menderes responds by commissioning a new project...
Paths of Glory. A passion out of fashion, antimilitarism, vented by a gifted new director, 29-year-old Stanley Kubrick (TIME...
...Artist as Priest. Schooled by Jesuits from the age of six, Jim was "God-intoxicated," and Stanislaus was keen enough to recognize that Joyce remained God-intoxicated though he changed gods. The work of art became his religious passion. It was this, says Stanislaus, that prompted Jim as a stripling to say to the mature Yeats: "I regret that you are too old to be influenced by me." Argues Stanislaus: "What my brother said, or meant to say . . . was in plain words that Yeats did not hold his head high enough for a poet of his stature, that he made...
Paths of Glory. A passion out of fashion, antimilitarism, is vented by a gifted new director, 29-year-old Stanley Kubrick (TIME...