Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier roles -- as the scheming siren in Body Heat, the prostitute drunk on erotic danger in Crimes of Passion, the chic hit woman of Prizzi's Honor -- Turner has dazzlingly portrayed women with elusive identities. Was a Turner character foxy or a weasel, or tantalizing bits of both? Peggy Sue, while tamping down the actress's smoldering Wasp sexuality, challenges her to play two characters and moods at once. She must simultaneously experience and elegize the high spirits of her teens, and she accomplishes the feat with grace, wit and feeling. Turner, 32, cannot pass for a teenager, but that...
...Archbishop also cautioned against intellectual pride, which he termed "offensive and cruel," and unconsidered passion. A "passionate coolness," he said, would help man direct his energies into "purposeful, well-considered action," and help alleviate suffering in the world...
...actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life to live over again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner' "). The evening's reverberant themes are guilt at having abandoned his troubled family, which was the nub of his first great hit, The Glass Menagerie, and passion for work, which Williams bluntly says mattered more to him than sex, more than devotion, more than other people. The worst advice critics ever offered, he says, was that he stop writing: he simply couldn...
Logical? Certainly. Difficult to sell to a party still studded with feisty factions? Again, certainly. Just look at some of the hottest primaries this year. Democrats have said, quite plainly, that the moderate line by itself bores them. Passion, whether lighted by the flame of old- fashioned liberalism or populism, still burns deeply in their hearts...
...issue has certainly stirred passion in the past. When the U.S. began installing missiles in Western Europe in late 1983, the Soviets stomped out of the Geneva arms negotiations for 16 months. Nonetheless, the Soviet SS- 20s and the U.S. Pershing IIs and cruise missiles in Europe do not play a central part in either superpower's nuclear strategy. They are important less as weapons than as political symbols, and in that role they have largely outlived their usefulness. The menace of the Soviet SS-20s failed to scare West European nations out of their alliance with...