Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arms control brings passion to Hart's voice like no other issue. Frank Connaughton, the sympathetic protagonist in his new novel, is a rangy, rugged arms-control negotiator from Montana who risks his career and reputation to get an agreement in Geneva. In his farewell speech to the Senate, Hart offered his own arms-control policy: a 50% reduction in U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals, a nuclear test ban and a moratorium on the development of cruise missiles. His foreign policy views are almost the opposite of Ronald Reagan's. The underlying problem in Central America, Hart argues, is poverty...
...disciplined, least knowledgeable and least likely segment of society to take any thought for the morrow or have any intimations of their own mortality. And there are those in any society who are forever young, or venturesome, or lonely or simply careless. To pause on the downhill slope of passion, to call time out from rapture and contemplate that this single act could be fatal, is only marginally more imaginable than the pause that too seldom occurs to consider whether this single act will create an unwanted life...
What continues to draw men and women together is the sharing of a common pleasure, not a common passion. I'm talking about sex. But "sex" alone is not the anthem of our age. Actually, this would be preferable to the one we have adopted. For "sex" alone implies "free and uninhibited sex," as the idealistic hedonists of an earlier age proclaimed...
...expect men and women simply to disdain sex; it is, after all, a natural desire. Yet there is something peculiarly repugnant about the form this desire has assumed. There used to be a certain coyness about sex. Along with that coyness went a recognition that sex--especially sex with passion--pointed to something beyond...
...trip to New York City and the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute caused Lacroix to change careers. "It really reawakened my passion for clothes," says Lacroix. Showing some sketches around in Paris, he found work easily, first at Hermes, then at Guy Paulin. In 1981 the call came from Patou, where control of the firm had just passed to Jean de Mouy, grandnephew of the original designer and the third generation of his family to run the business. De Mouy was all of 29 and determined "to see that, three generations after me, it is still a family house...