Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also seems to me that television achieves part of its power by appealing to human weaknesses. The habit of viewing it does not encourage reflection or contemplation. The eye is trained to crave novelty, while the brain rests or slumbers. Political debate, which during my last visit seemed a passion and a recreation among Americans, has shrunk to brief bursts of pleasant images. And television's ascent has coincided with a measurable decline in the ability of young people to read. Democracy cannot function without an informed citizenry. The paradox of television in forwarding such a goal seems clear: barring...
...suspects that the Vincent bloodline had thinned since the days of the vigorous Yankee traders and that Rose Marie brought an unaffected vitality to the clan. She makes babies as easily as some people make friends; she revels in runny noses and dropped socks. Mothering is her natural passion. At 40 she nurses her new infant as the other children look on: "They watched her unbutton the nightgown and feel inside for the bosom. After fixing it to the baby mouth, and satisfied with it, she looked up. Caitlin and Sophie saw it --that wild look--only this time there...
...then there was the courtroom drama. The confessions of von Bulow's ex-mistress and soap opera actress Alexandra Isles. The detective work of Sunny's maid Maria Schrallhammer, who it seems hated von Bulow with a passion. The Old Testament fury with which Sunny's children by a previous marriage pursued von Bulow...
Mario Matthew Cuomo, 53, the Governor of New York, is both of these men, the man of strenuous action and the man of otherworldly contemplation. Like the titans he frequently invokes--Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt--he is a man who battles inwardly between passion and reason, between his ambition and his doubts. Some believe that out of this man's head and heart may come the soul of a new Democratic Party, and perhaps the strength to lead it to the White House...
...quite understand, that friends and lovers are two distinct species, one domestic, one alien, that I feel all these things I can never express, that there must be someone out there who will love me to pieces. Hughes give teens what they want in life and movies: romance, passion, pleasure, commitment--and a little sex. His pictures are like teen psychotherapy with a guaranteed happy ending...