Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it comes to tournament time, however, all advantages and disadvantages melt away. Teams play on adrenaline, on passion, on whatever is left in them after long seasons...
...Paris onstage for La Boheme, Franco Zeffirelli must have felt some pressure to top himself with his new production of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. Curious first-nighters, proud holders of the toughest opera ticket of the season, entered the Met last week wondering how far the director's passion for outsize verisimilitude would extend. Would he cut off the Prince of Persia's head and stick it on a pole? Build the Great Wall of China? Or (gasp!) actually respect the libretto and provide a tasteful pageant that would suit the lush, exotic music without overwhelming...
Webster's passion for the law will shape his first days at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Former CIA Director William Casey moved the CIA's office of legal counsel to a Virginia office building miles from Langley, demoralizing agency lawyers and symbolizing his indifference to their work. At FBI headquarters Webster keeps his legal specialists a few steps away and is sure to continue that practice when he moves across the river. "Adherence to the rule of law, both nationally and internationally, is a very important principle," he said last week...
...expands on each director's distinctive style, music and image are indivisibly wedded. Remember a movie, and you can hear its music too. There have been five for Bernardo Bertolucci, including the ravishing 1900. Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and Burn!, brimming with political conscience and passion. John Boorman's Exorcist II: The Heretic, a witchy reverie of evil and redemption. Terrence Malick's edgy elegy to heartsick heartland America, Days of Heaven, took on the resonance of some dark folk ballad. And all Sergio Leone's pop-folk epics, from A Fistful of Dollars to Once upon...
...world he knows first hand, as is clearly and beautifully evident in images such as those of the Zulu homeland. And the entire novel is suffused with the intensely emotional voice of a man who cares deeply about his country and who tries--and succeeds--in expressing that passion through his writing...