Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PASSION FOR EXCELLENCE, Peters and Austin...
...election campaign, Visions of America, has been serving as TIME's drama critic since last winter. "The theater," he says, "is often the quickest of the literary arts to respond to social and political trends. At least in smaller-scale productions, there is more room for art for passion's sake...
These past few years a couple of sportswriters on Florida papers kept bumping into each other on the sportswriters' circuit, and when their workdays were done, they tended to talk baseball, a shared passion. In time these discussions moved beyond the esoterica that baseball nuts adore. Instead they became romantic, roseate, starry-eyed dialogues on the notion of owning their own team. Then last November, the romance died. They bought a ball club...
...proved to be a man of his word. But two funny things happened: his plan worked, to NBC's profit as well as its honor, and it was implemented by Brandon Tartikoff. At the time, Tartikoff was thought to be Silverman's Silverman: a hard-driving guy with a passion for the lowest common denominator. But as Tinker and Tartikoff discussed the multidimensional chessboard of prime-time scheduling, they realized they saw eye to eye on many things, especially the need to lure the handful of producers who could set NBC on the high road to success. In the process...
...have faded. The sheer joy of possessing power has lost some luster. The men and women in Reagan's Cabinet are, with the possible exceptions of Education Secretary William Bennett and Attorney General Edwin Meese, centrists devoted to preserving and enlarging the beachhead won in the first term. Their passion has cooled with experience, extreme ideology has given way to accommodation. The controversy that followed Haig, Watt and Donovan has been replaced by the solid sense of Shultz, Hodel and Brock. If the Cabinet members are not flamboyant, they are competent. If they are no longer revolutionary, they are spurred...