Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convenient categories, just as his flamboyant personality came to seem almost mythic. His favorite form of conversation was the extended monologue. Savagely contemptuous when crossed, he could be surprisingly meek and gentle with friends. He also worked tirelessly. "Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion," he wrote in 1948, but he never expected this love to pay his bills. They were often considerable. Graves married twice and had eight children. He also spent more than a decade, between wives, with the American poet Laura Riding, who was first his lover and later his literary collaborator...
...three others that seem photographed by Rainbow Brite for Hovel Beautiful. The book's famous lesbian encounter between Celie and the charismatic blues singer Shug is played as if it were a sweet game a mother would teach her adoring child. Male violence is less sexual than paternal. Passion is wanting throughout, and a radiance that emanates from something other than a klieg light. It's all very pretty, but it's cinematography, not cinema...
Sometimes, however, the internal flames of passion compensate for the lack of external warmth...
Sherman's March raises provocative questions about the relationship between art and life, about the consuming passion of art in the face or ordinary life, and about the love of one artist for the medium that gives him pleasure and sometimes threatens his life. To these young eyes, all that spells one masterpiece of a home movie. Look for it to screen at the Orson Welles or Carpenter Center theaters in the spring...
Brustein's Changeling is thus about passion and virginity--though not of the Hail Mary, controversially-Catholic variety that recently has been thrust into the headlines. Here the reputation of virginity--protagonist Beatrice-Joanna Vermandero's (Diane D'Aquila) obsession to keep her honor intact--leads to doom and destruction. Female chastity is the ideal that justifies the most heinous atrocities...