Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admire the sight of a Texas fishing boat cutting through the muddy water and purple sky, or linger over the electric heat in the slow dance of Madigan and Harris before their ideals fatally collide. But once it gets going, Alamo Bay delivers its argument with rigor and passion...
...glory. And through the nudging of his wise and principled friend Arnold Epstein (played with ferocious wit by Barry Miller), Eugene begins to grasp that his charm and amiability may mask the moral flaw of self-absorption. When Arnold stingingly accuses Eugene of being "a witness," devoid of passion and commitment, the insight may make an audience reconsider its feelings about the character and also its author, who appears to be musing self-critically about three decades of often bland ingratiation on Broadway, in Hollywood...
...also imposed the unrealistically high expectation that every play produced there must have a floodlit afterlife. If there were no surefire contenders for SRO signs among this year's offerings, that should count for less than the fact that most showed some merit and four glowed with intelligence and passion...
Said notes in the foreward that one could better describe Schwab as an "Oreinteur" than an "Orientalist," Indeed Schwab's intimate style maintains a respectful appreciation for his subject, the Orient, of which he remarked himself. "Perhaps no single other term has been so loaded with emotion, even passion" in the history of western consciousness. His philosophical critique not only traces changing perceptions of the Orient, the Other, but in the process goes to the roots of western intellectual history to illuminate changes in the Occidental self-image as well...
...doubt of his underlying self-importance. He appears modest about his role in Government but leaves the impression that he was decisive in securing U.S. aid for Israel during the October War. His on-again-off-again affair with a Gentile show girl is elevated to a grand romantic passion when all the evidence suggests that our hero was merely having a good time before he settled down with a more appropriate mate. The woman he marries is kept in figurative purdah ("She is my private love, not for publication"), though he pulls back the screen when it suits...