Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national currency from circulation; scores died in recurring clashes. Since June, the country has once again been quiet, but a visitor last week remarked on an atmosphere of "underlying tension." Cautious Burmese listened to Ne Win's resignation speech with "rapt attention," he noted, but reacted with little passion. Said he: "People have adopted a wait-and-see attitude...
...Governor had proved in a way that was far more tangible than his stale talk about a Massachusetts miracle that he could handle tough problems and people. His prize was a choreographed convention, free of the furies that once plagued the party's psyche, but so denatured of passion that it could have passed for a Republican production...
...were torn with passion, from the death of Kennedy through the civil rights and antiwar demonstrations, culminating for Boston in the great antibusing struggle in the early 1970s. Michael Dukakis' great cause in this decade was no-fault automobile insurance. He waged a sustained campaign for this reform, which took endless litigation out of the tainted Massachusetts courts. It was a solid, valuable reform, imitated in other states, hard to dramatize, but for that reason amenable to sustained argument of the sort Dukakis is good at. On the other, emotional issues of the time, Dukakis voted "correctly" for a liberal...
Latin America offers passion. Latin America has a life -- big clouds, unambiguous themes, tragedy, epic -- that the U.S., for all its quality of life, yearns to have. Latin America offers an undistressed leisure, a crowded kitchen table, even a full sorrow. Such is the urgency of America's need that it reaches right past a fledgling, homegrown Hispanic-American culture for the darker bottle of Mexican beer, for the denser novel of a Latin American master...
...25th wedding anniversary approaches, Paulie Flax, a household-hints columnist for her local suburban newspaper, views her marriage to Howard, who years ago traded in his jazz saxophone for a Long Island recording studio, with unfaltering logic: the passion has gone out of their union; therefore she must leave him. But fate intervenes, as it always does in a comedy of mores. When Howard suffers a heart attack, Paulie sets aside her resolve -- until she uncovers his passing liaison with a would-be Mme. de Pompadour of the shopping malls. That propels her into New York City, where Son Jason...