Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Books, he dislikes. But soap operas are his passion, particularly The Young and the Restless, on which he played a small role two summers ago. During an annual trip, Gretzky also enjoys low-rolling in Las Vegas. The casino swallows him for days. Otherwise, hockey has been absorbing. "I don't have a whole lot of time for anything else. I play the game." He likens the N.H.L. to a university, and calls hockey the study of geometry. "People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck...
...easy work. The search for oil meant days of chasing rumors over dusty back roads in Texas and Oklahoma, and nights bent over maps studying geological strata. In his spare time, Pickens indulged his passion for Gusher, a board game in which players roll dice to look for oil. Says Amarillo Lawyer Wales Madden Jr., an old friend: "It was uncanny. He always won at that darn game...
...with looks that beg a swoon, approached young Kirk to share a word. He gave her one of those long moist looks of love everlasting, as she read it. "I allllmost caught that chicken," he said, and it was then she realized it was the chase that held his passion...
...mother Jane Wyman stars on TV's Falcon Crest; and his father's performances draw landslides of applause. So it seemed only natural when Michael Reagan, 39, recently decided to become an actor. The President's adopted son had been doing endorsement commercials in connection with his first passion, boat racing, and liked it so much he is taking classes with Acting Coach Rick Walters, whose pupils include Barbi Benton and Priscilla Presley. And what is the reaction of the leading man in the White House? "Dad and Nancy think it's great," reports Reagan, who adds that he finally...
...Soviet Union to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan and support efforts to end the Iran-Iraq war. Reagan avoided substantive matters in his banquet remarks (they were not a toast, since the Muslim guests of honor were not served wine), concentrating instead on Fahd's well-known passion for soccer...