Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another delegate said she was "disturbed" that the organizers would invite Smith despite the "passion that they knew Smith would evoke...
...Heritage USA charges no admission. The grandiose 2,300-acre project, which is years away from completion, includes Bakker's Assemblies of God church, a 500-room luxury hotel, a mock turn-of-the-century mall with 25 boutiques under an artificial sky, and an amphitheater for staging passion plays and living Nativity spectacles...
...kissing by a bubbling brook, riding over pastoral fields and playfully tickling each other in the hayloft. Reminiscent of a more modern Love Story whose protagonists played touch football in a snowy Harvard Stadium, these sequences are much more effective than the written word in capturing the quick, physical passion of adolescent love...
...faction I understand a number of citizens...who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse...to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." James Madison in The Federalist...
...indeed the cast of characters--three sisters, bickering parents, the satellite husbands and lovers--could be found in Allen's humorless Interiors (1978). Hannah takes its sufferers seriously but not solemnly; it massages them rather than pointing a finger. Elliot may apostrophize in soppy cliches about his infatuation ("What passion today with Lee! She was like a volcano!"), but he is canny enough to woo Lee with love poems by E.E. Cummings, the thinking man's Kahlil Gibran. Mickey's belief that he has a brain tumor may lead him on quests for ultimate answers, but to him Catholicism...