Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the best forum for flirting with such fantasies is TriBeCa's premier nightclub, Area. Every six weeks the club spends $60,000 and 300 man-hours revamping its interior to promote a new theme. Past themes have included "surburbia," "obelisks," and "passion," all of which entailed major structural changes, bizarre invitations, and display cases complete with live models acting out an aspect of the theme. On Halloween night a masked man attacked a hanging animal carcass with a chainsaw...
What allows a club to survive beyond what many have labelled "the average lifespan of 1000 nights"? To a large extent, the answer is determined by the energy and stamina an owner can invest in his creation. For Rudolf the answer is simple: "I do nightlife with passion, for my own entertainment; when I get bored here, I change it." But he adds, "Some change the decor and have the illusion they're changing the club. You have to change the spirit...
...rock 'n' roll. He plows through historical biographies; she leafs through romance novels. He loves polo; she prefers the pool. Yet they do appear to be in love. Assorted smooches in the woods and snuggles on the polo field are the public sparks of what seems a private passion. Their public displays of affection are thawing out the normally frozen reserve of royal protocol. Charles and Diana try to spend as much time together as possible. The breakfast hour is kept sacred; during their stay at the embassy, for example, they will probably not be intruded upon much before...
...unaware of space except for in grade school." The actress has been coached on the set by no less an expert than Sally Ride, America's pioneer woman in space. "She's been like a friendly consultant," Capshaw says, and communicated particularly "the determination, the fears and the passions" of astronauts. Ride thinks that one kind of passion does not yet belong in zero gravity, though. Responding to a question during an appearance at a women's conference in Milwaukee last week, Ride said she and her astronaut husband have no desire to be the first couple in space...
...smartly written novels sell briskly in England, where the author lectures on neoclassicism and the Romantic movement at London's Courtauld Institute. She is definitely not a romantic. Providence, Look at Me and Hotel du Lac (1984 winner of Britain's Booker Prize) take dim views of grand passion. Says the heroine of Hotel du Lac, a successful author of romances, "The facts of life are much too terrible to go into my kind of fiction." The narrator of Look at Me takes this sentiment to the extreme: "It is wiser, in every circumstance, to forget, to cultivate...