Word: passione
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...play in the presence of two legends of the US Women’s soccer scene is a far cry from passing with her brother in their back garden, growing up in Princeton, New Jersey. Immersed in a family culture where soccer was a second language, her trademark passion and professionalism was evident from an early age.“I’ve played soccer ever since I could remember,” she recalls. “Whether it was just me and my brother playing in the back yard every day, or whether it was going...
...dropped her bags and disappeared into Nicaragua for a year to cover the Sandinistas and the contras. Upon her return, she hopscotched from World-section writer to deputy New York bureau chief to associate editor in the Arts section, where she reported about books, movies, music and her greatest passion: the theater...
...scaffolders, embracing film, education, site-specific installation, technology and dance. But his first commitment is to the cutting edge of performance. "How can we use the body to understand who we are?" he asks. Entity doesn't provide all the answers, but its profound strangeness speaks eloquently of the passion with which he embraces the question...
...there is something about Watson’s unrestrained passion that is so contagious, and something about his dogmatic but moral purpose that seems so noble, that it is hard to entirely condemn him. One can certainly disagree with his violence (he stressed that despite his many violent acts he has never injured or killed a person, nor been convicted of a felony), and worry about his judgment (several crew members have alleged that Watson’s bravado risked their lives...
Then there's her old standby case based on experience. Clinton believes Obama's support is largely a mirage--a bunch of true believers whose passion might help him cinch the nomination, but that may prove an insufficient bedrock for winning a general election when the spell might be broken by tough questions about national-security credentials, economic-policy plans and rich experience. She can't stop from shaking her head in disbelief when longtime friends who are elected officials inform her that they are going to endorse Obama and were chiefly convinced by their children's enthusiasm...