Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superannuated prostitutes. Though he talked year after year of going off to Italy to visit his friend Artist Werner Gilles on the island of Ischia, he let year after year go by before he could bring himself to apply for a passport. He loved West Berlin with a passion, had not budged from it since 1945, and his mythical trip to Ischia became a standing joke among his friends...
...wild animal cry; she clutches at the urn, cradles and rocks it in entwining arms, spasmodically tries to breathe it back to life with words of love, smothers it with the salty, sightless kisses of tears, the strangulated sobs of a soul bereft. She is an open wound bleeding passion, and the spectator sees what is almost too shameless to see, grief at the pitch of human endurance. In an admirable company-Athens' Greek Tragedy Theater, now at Manhattan's City Center after stands in Los Angeles and Chicago-Actress Papathanassiou most tellingly unlocks the memory...
...totally uninterested in anything long-haired. He had a passing fling with jazz, played the banjo and the violin in a jazz band he formed in high school, and wrote, with Frank Loesser, such pop songs as In Love with the Memory of You. Baseball was his enduring passion: "Had I been a better catcher, I might never have been a musician." His only opera, The Mighty Casey, is about Mudville's heroic slugger...
...variety in a new collection, generally well Englished by David Magarshack. The first story, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, is the Leskov work best known in this country because of the Shostakovich opera based on it (1934)-It is a quietly told story of an increasingly violent passion. The avalanche of sensuality starts when a bored wife has an affair with a young clerk on her old husband's household staff, and leads with chilling practicality to a murder, then to another and another; and the story ends in a convict gang en route to Siberia...
...more. I don't mind a couple of slices-well, just another. And some fat. I like a piece of fat. That's what I feel"). Through a long, meandering life, it becomes clear to the reader, food has been the old man's only passion. The Key to My Heart describes a young tradesman's attempt to close out an account with a notoriously tight-fisted but loose-loined gentlewoman. At first the gentlewoman tries seduction instead of settlement ("I like a man who works. You work like your father did-God, what an attractive...