Word: passione
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...playlist has grown too large in the cultural mind, I’ll draw your attention to the recent film “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.” Two misunderstood teens fall in love over a series of break-up mixes and a passion for the indie-est of fictional indie bands, Where’s Fluffy? At one point, while scrolling through Nick’s iPod, Norah proclaims, “We are musical soulmates.”In a streak of wild coincidence, they are also regular soulmates. They...
...school at UCLA after finishing her undergraduate studies at UPenn. Feeling distracted, tired, and unexcited by the prospects of working in a law office for the rest of her life, she did some major re-evaluating and began working in an agency mailroom. “I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory,” Snider said, “and I knew I had to do something remarkable.” Cut to Snider’s big break: she is sitting bored in the mailroom, flipping...
...well to the stage. The fascination in this particular ballet lies in the buildup to the climactic fifth movement: as Phillip Glass’ music becomes more and more dramatic and exciting, the dancers drop clothes and spiral out of control in a frenzy of ecstatic and hopeless passion. But without the context of the first four movements, the fifth and only one presented looked too easy, and the dancers looked too happy, for Tharp’s imagination to come to life. Still, there was something about the ambition to end with a nonsensical, kaleidoscopic cataclysm that made...
...This show has literally hosted all the big names out there,” he said, mentioning Michelle Kwan and Sarah Hughes. “Skating has changed; Harvard has changed. Yet every year we find the same passion for philanthropy...
...site, and the user interface will be similar to Facebook’s to facilitate easy navigation. In his statement to his co-workers, Moskovitz wrote that his experience at Facebook will stay with him even after he departs. “Facebook has been my passion and my purpose for the past 5 years,” he wrote. “I will always bleed Facebook blue.” Zuckerberg had similarly fond words for his former partner. “Dustin has always had Facebook’s best interests at heart and will always...