Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sowell's reading of American history pretends to sidestep these crevices of conflicting interpretations. He claims to present the conditions that brought different immigrant populations to the New World and their adaptation to its opportunities and frustrations objectively. To a large extent, he succeeds, for what he sacrifices in passion and fury, he compensates with the conviction of his honesty. What his narrative loses in style and wit--Sowell's is a turgid, textbook monotone--he gains in clarity and precision. "The history of American ethnic groups," says Sowell, "is the history of a complex aggregate of complex groups...
...vehicle for suspense. It is intensely depressing to watch lan McKellen and Janey Suzman frolic in bed with all the emotion and ingenuousness of a whoreand her john. It is even more discouraging to see McKellen swimmaked on his back in an English lake. Gratuitous nudity translates this unmanageable passion Miles seems so intent on portraying into a vulgar act with all the subtlety of a road-side strip joint. Frontal nudity simply adds nothing to the quality of realism...
Suzman, on the other hand, is given a relatively easier task in the role of Freida. Though adding an unnecessarily, harsh teutonic accent, she brings dimension to Freida that only heightens the absence of a strong Lawrence opposite her. She explains her passion and makes clear her strange love for this strange man, in moving scenes. Incensed at Mabel for questioning whether she is indeed the right woman for Lawrence, Freida launches into a tirade. Her incoherent anger, her rage at abandoning her children 12 years before, the passion so clearly emerging from character development, make us sympathize with this...
...measure becomes the sum of his acquisitions. A piece of art becomes nothing more than a trophy at the end of the race, a testament of the winner's endurance. Hoving's protests to the contrary, the book chronicles the sublimation of his love for art to the grander passion of the hunt. His goals are stated clearly in the diary entry he reproduces from the beginning of his career: "I want nothing more than success. Success, adulation--notice--are my primary wishes. I believe I deserve success, yet I feel I am doomed never to find...
...vows his passion...