Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those long, dull, away-trips-by-bus are not the athletes passion--let them try private cars...
...books. Gordon's characters have simple lives--lives structured by responsibilities, demands, duties and desires. They capture us because Gordon has a passion for the familiar and an original look to reveal it. Her eye catches the minutiae of life and twists them like needlepoint into a design of the ordinary...
...crucial difference is not Arkady's comparative youth or passion, it is his theater of operation: the dark side of Europe, where private murder is regarded as a violation of a state monopoly. Indeed, the detective is quickly elbowed aside by officials of the KGB-the Soviet secret police. Arkady is not wanted here; these are no common killings. But then, this is no ordinary investigator. Son of an embittered general, indifferent party member, all too aware of disparities in Soviet society, he runs contrary to official wishes, pursuing his quarry through Politburo corridors and down provincial streets...
...admirable technical confidence do not make up for a lack of that obscure energy that transforms les mots justes into great writing. In some ways the style belongs to the 18th century when Sam Johnson arbited style, and was always harping on about prudent diction and the dangers of passion...
...first and most enduring passion was hatred for her mother, a flighty but drivingly ambitious woman. Callas was born in 1923, shortly after the family arrived in New York from Greece. When Maria was a teenager, her mother took her back to Athens. During World War II, she sang major roles at the opera house, but in 1945 her teacher wisely decided that she should go to Italy and get the best training. Instead, Maria left without warning anyone, for Manhattan...