Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watching television is still deeply rooted in guilt. We make great gestures toward making the medium into some sort of genuine art, or at least some genuinely stylish entertainment--but that's about as far as it goes. It's just not a form to arouse that sort of passion. If one employs Salvador Dali's Paranoid Critical Method, one starts suspecting that television's visceral meretriciousness is what we actually adore. In a medium populated by yahoos of the most defiant sort, the rest of us cannot help feeling like minor league aristocrats. Maybe we watch to make ourselves...
...laid up in my hospital bed, dictating the headline of my story: On Her Last Legs--Special to The Crimson, UHS. Looking back on the events of last Monday. I can now laugh at my misgivings. The marathon was, despite the fact that I still hate stairs with a passion...
...shuttle were its $9.9 billion price tag (at a 30% cost overrun), all those loose tiles, the exploding engines, even the last-minute computer failure, to say nothing of the inevitable jokes about America's "space lemon" and "flying brickyard." Could past scorn actually have increased the passion of this new embrace? The shuttle had become a kind of technological Rocky, the bum who perseveres to the end, the underdog who finally wins. Columbia's success, explained Milwaukee Sociologist Wayne Youngquist, "ties in with so many of our cultural themes. It's Horatio Alger...
...Boston. The radical political spirit of the northern frontier is put on film-in Crosby, N. Dak. A company of actors turn 30, and another young man makes a movie about it-in North Conway, N.H. Tab Hunter and a 300-lb. transvestite named Divine enact a suburban passion play-in Baltimore...
Throughout, Deighton has fun with the formula without compromising its believability. Hitler's former signalman, for instance, has become an East Anglia chicken farmer, in debt for 2,000 Rhode Island Reds. The directors of M16 and BND-West German intelligence-share a passion for cactus growing, exploring ways to XPD mealy bugs. Finally, Deighton delivers a telling pronouncement. The well-heeled film producer Max Breslow, a former SS officer, notes a wall of video games in a Los Angeles pizzeria. "U-Boat Commander" and "Blitzkrieg" produce a deafening flood of electronic babble. "This...