Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Hughes doesn't agonize over his scripts: he is famous for batting out drafts in a few days. And sometimes haste pays off. His teen comedies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink have the urgency of passion recollected in heat. By contrast, his movies about grownups -- Mr. Mom and the Vacation farces -- come off as slapdash, complacent, a bad blend of Norman Rockwell and National Lampoon. But none of his films seems so hastily conceived, so ill conceived as The Great Outdoors. Hughes must have written it between meals...
...material, however, has quite the impact of the best old stories. Feathers is a marvel, 18 pages that contain as many true surprises as a protracted piece of trickery by John Fowles. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love gets to the heart of sexual passion and its black aftermath. Both stories place an established couple in a charged, awkward confrontation with another couple -- a Carver specialty. He is 50 now, and considered a hot writer; 25 years after he began fashioning these tough, unliterary works, they are being picked up eagerly as emblems of late...
...event has aroused genuine political passion among ordinary Soviets, for many a first in their lifetime. Soviet journalists have turned into political reporters, and ordinary citizens are joining with zest in the preparations for the conference. Every day the newspapers are filled with stories of rigged delegate elections and commentaries on the pros and cons of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). In a round-table debate last week sponsored by the Novosti press agency, two delegates fiercely disputed whether a guarantee of "freedom of demonstrations" should be approved at the conference. "Look what happens in the West!" one shouted. Exclaimed...
...that. More and more perfume manufacturers are relying on not just provocative texts and evocative images but a sample of the real thing. Turn the page, break open the "scent strip" and get a full blast of Giorgio of Beverly Hills; or Calvin Klein's Obsession; Fendi, the passion of Rome; or Faberge's McGregor. "The fragrance business is so highly competitive," says Melisande Congdon-Doyle, director of cosmetic and fragrance marketing at Harper's Bazaar, "that the only way to get the scent before the noses of people is to go to them directly." For a person who receives...
...usual case for prizefighting as art or science is harder to make in the face of Mike Tyson, the monster that men have worried was at the heart of their undefinable passion and indefensible sport. For twelve rounds or less, Tyson and Michael Spinks will fight over the heavyweight championship next week. It is time again to shiver. See SPORT...