Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electricity made human, and when he died last week of a heart attack at 82, it almost seemed that Washington's lights visibly dimmed. What remains is a paradox: the memory of a passionate man whose entire judicial career was aimed at controlling judicial passion...
...tryst set to a Brahms sextet. A provincial housewife grows bored with her lot, takes a pointless, guarded fling at the pleasures of Paris, meets an appealing man and abandons herself to him. Malle decided to be both mystic and realistic, to try to film both the passion and the poetry of love. The resulting sequence is by now duly celebrated in the annals of film. It follows the lovers from bedroom to bath tub and back to bed again, missing very little, zeroing in on Moreau's face at her ultimate moment of rapture. Jean-Marc Bory...
Jean Untermeyer displays a persevering but uneven personality, one dedicated to passion and sensibility but continually drawn to the comforting but humdrum virtues of a tidy housewife. Her prose reflects this dichotomy, ranging from the limpest of cliches to flights of intuitive perception, as in her lines about Sylvia Townsend Warner: "Yet all is not wit, though it springs out from her as pointed as a prow. There is wisdom, as final as a proverb...
...makers operate on a scatter-platter basis, indiscriminately grinding out some 100 new records each week on a hit-and-nearly-always-miss basis. Spector, by contrast, has shown an uncanny knack for catching adolescent ears with nearly every record he produces. Almost all of them celebrate post-pubescent passion: Be My Baby, Then He Kissed Me, Wait Til' My Bobby Gets Home. Spector has already made bigtime teen-market recording stars of a succession of singers and vocal groups such as the Ronettes, Bobb B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, Darlene Love, the Crystals...
...look it: "Nothing embarrasses me more than to be typed as a poet. My friends are very tactful. They've decided that I'm kind of the next best thing to a poet you can get in welfare-state Britain, where everything is brown and without passion...