Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both the Apple Computer advertisement and the Las Vegas circus indicate, the enduring American love affairs with the automobile and the television set are now being transformed into a giddy passion for the personal computer. This passion is partly fad, partly a sense of how life could be made better, partly a gigantic sales campaign. Above all, it is the end result of a technological revolution that has been in the making for four decades and is now, quite literally, hitting home...
...answered it very well. "Football is a profound infatuation to some men," says another old coach, Sid Gillman, 71. "It means so much to you, your wife is jealous." Bryant's wife of 47 years, Mary Harmon, has generously shared him with his other love. Bryant has no passion for hobbies. He swings a golf stick, but he swings it like a scythe. "I don't know," he says. "What is there to do on Saturday afternoons except be excited...
...music (Mozart and Mexican romantics like Agustin Lara), or playing dominoes. Every two or three weeks he travels to his family's country home where he enjoys swimming, badminton and walking. He keeps in shape by doing calisthenics every day; he also jogs. He admits to a mild passion for soccer, but rarely attends matches at Mexico's huge national stadium. His tastes in food are simple: for dinner he may eat a plate of fruit or quesadilla (tortilla and cheese) and drink a glass of milk. He also enjoys an occasional highball...
...pages; $35), have selected 94 works to fashion an elaborate and appropriately timed birthday card. From the Annunciation to the Ascension, works by Botticelli, Dürer, El Greco, Rembrandt and dozens of lesser-known artists and craftsmen re-create the greatest story ever told and seen. Piety, passion and drama are conveyed in traditional mediums and styles. Jan van Eyck's Gabriel is a resplendent messenger in jeweled robe and peacock-colored wings. Salvador Dali's Sacrament of the Last Supper is dominated by a clean-shaven, translucent Jesus addressing his bowed Apostles under what appears...
...should have been. (The film runs about 2½ hours.) But Sophie is not the only obsessed person in this romantic trinity: Nathan has his lunar side too, which flashes on and off at unexpected intervals. Kevin Kline is an engaging actor who can play both ends of passion, the delightful and the deranged. He cannot play both simultaneously-who could?-and his character suggests two halves of an incoherent whole...