Word: passionlessness
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Hart can come across as chilly and passionless, but he turns angry-passionately so-when news stories describe him as "cool and aloof." He has a reputation for humorlessness-and jokes about it. "I do have a sense of humor," he says. "But if you have to tell someone you have a sense of humor, I guess you're in trouble...
...excitement over his candidacy? While he can rouse a hallful of supporters, Mondale is diminished by television, appearing too stiff and shrill. Reagan's presence, on the other hand, is magnified by a TV screen. Still, no other Democrat has inspired much voter emotion. "This is the most passionless campaign I've ever seen," says David Nagle, chairman of Iowa's Democratic Committee. "Nobody seems to care deeply about any of the candidates." New Hampshire Democrats seem equally bored, despite the quadrennial invasion of the candidates. Ironically, Mondale's big lead keeps enthusiasm down...
...desperately tries to reawaken his love for her. Cox portrays a sensual, hyperactive, and manipulative Maggie. At times she stumbles over her lines, not from nervousness but rather from rushing them a bit too much. All the same, we sympathize with her character's submersion in Brick's passionless, greedy family...
...survive? the Israeli lawyer is asked. "Like everyone else in this country: with passion. Passions." Hanna K. is a passionless film about passions - the Israelis' passion to endure while surrounded by the barbed wire of Arab hostility, the Palestinians' passion to reclaim their homeland, the passion of one woman for justice and a fair measure of self-respect. Hanna Kaufman (Jill Clayburgh) is an American Jew who has come to Israel to practice law. Her first major client, a young Palestinian (Muhamad Bakri) caught sneaking into Israel, is attempting to secure legal right to the house he lived...
...torching her house. These fates are not surprising. Virginie foreshadows her fiery destructions throughout her journals. Other forms of suspense are similarly lacking; the second story recapitulates the first with increasing listlessness. If Hawkes set out to show that erotic literature can be (and often has been) repetitious and passionless, then Virginie succeeds. But reading through this lesson seems uncomfortably like an act of masochism. -By Paul Gray