Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McCarthy's second year was less spectacular, but outside of Harvard she discovered the world of road racing. Which has become a special passion. "I love it." she says excitedly. "The courses are always new a and different. And I love to compete with men. You can really get pumped when you pass them...
...tony touch in Ecstasy, 49 years ago, when the heroine's string of pearls burst and scattered to symbolize her surrender to passion. When the same visual genteelness is employed in a modern film, it is a little like getting a set of stereopticon slides instead of a VTR for your birthday; more nostalgic good taste than you really need. The subject now is not mere infidelity but incest no less, between an uncle (Sean Connery) and his niece (Betsy Brantley), who are on a climbing holiday in the Swiss Alps in the 1930s. Their guide (Lambert Wilson) restores...
...victim of a weak national economy and a line of strong women. The latter included his grandmother, an un challenged matriarch of Morrisonville, Va.; his wife, an orphanage-hardened shopgirl; and especially his mother, who had a "passion for improving the male of the species, which in my case took the form of forcing me to 'make something of my self.' " She had him, at a tender age, delivering newspapers, flogging the Saturday Evening Post and, in preparation for a career in show business, taking banjo lessons...
Amidst her blatant passion for Sloan, various other subplots unfold--including the homosexual relationship between Ed and Sloan and the father's recognition of Sloan. All these developments climax in one explosive monologue by Sloan, revealing his depraved and destructive past. Samols leaves us breathless from this speech and his ensuing violence, which finally lead Kath and Ed to a brutal fight over Sloan...
...this is sophistry too in a way; for the deep pleasure in the making and keeping of an enemy lies not in his redeeming social value but in the peculiar passion he lends to life. There is simply no force in nature like him, none that can so suck the oxygen from the air, so tighten the skin about the ears, so clench the fists, sweat the palms, so press the tongue against the mouth's roof or stretch the nerves Like piano wires. His concentration on you is total. He cares more about your welfare than...