Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innate caution of Dukakis' campaign style sometimes leaves aides in the peculiar role of providing both the specificity and the passion that the candidate so assiduously avoids. Chris Edley, for example, talks animatedly about Dukakis' moving immediately after the election to forge a "vigorous consensus on a multi-year deficit plan." Implicit in this prediction is an awareness that far more overt sacrifice will required to douse the deficit than merely mobilizing an army of IRS agents to hunt down tax scofflaws. "There will be real action on the economic front," Edley says. "On the three fronts of the budget...
...orchestra became Rachlevsky's consuming passion. He gave up his job at the Detroit Symphony in 1984 to create a full-time chamber-music society. And he spent 20-hour days dunning corporate chiefs for money, cooking borsch for winter concertgoers, and arranging for a towing service to be on call for orchestra patrons whose cars failed to start on concert evenings...
...Misha would work right alongside us," recalls Carole Fuller, a procurement clerk-typist for the Army who late in life discovered a passion for chamber music and became a volunteer for the orchestra. "We'd work until 2 or 3 or 4 in the morning sending out tickets. Sometimes Misha got so tired he'd fall asleep with his head on a desk...
...will feel right at home. Watching three of the segments (based on hit songs from Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino and Rigoletto), purists could sneer at Aria as MTV -- Movies Trash Verdi. But Producer Don Boyd and his crew want to revive the old music's passion and fun, not to mock its petrified conventions. And as often as not, the film succeeds. This is high culture dolled up as pop culture, aesthetics for the anesthetized, opera for the inoperative...
...fear not so much that the provision will do great damage in itself but that it will set a precedent for increasing Government regulation of business, which is anathema to Reagan's free-market philosophy. Some partisans on both sides confess privately that the provision is not worth the passion being expended on it. But such thoughts come too late: the battle lines have been drawn...