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Word: passions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those films, passion was expressed with a kiss or a cheek-to-cheek dance. Yet, in retrospect, they often seem sexier than some of today's celebrated shockers. What made Mae West's double-entendres titillating was that they really had double meanings; current cinematic sex jokes have but one unmistakable point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE LATE SHOW AS HISTORY | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...speeded the tempo by slimming the monologues; Director Anthony Page has gained added power by close-ups that pore over a human face desolate in its frustrations. As on the London and New York stage, the demanding role of Maitland is enacted by Nicol Williamson, a player of explosive passion. Williamson does not merely perform; he lays his life on the line. His eyes are wells of mocking, melancholy torment that seem to see and sear every filmgoer in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Inadmissible Evidence | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...dice, finagles the charts, juggles the schedule. He throws his cosmos into chaos. In the real world, he gets fired by his employer. As he drinks his troubles away, the people of the association comfort him. In the end, the players celebrate the death of Damon Rutherford with a passion-play re-enactment of the game. The cosmos no longer has any direction; the players are on their own. And there is the doomed Damon Rutherford, holding the baseball aloft, "hard and white and . . . beautiful." He says, "It's not a trial. It's not even a lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Play Ball | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...long, superb title story, a woman's grief at her husband's death seems at first as stiff and arid as their marriage was. Then she finds that her real grief consists of a series of discoveries about herself, notably the fact that she harbors a lesbian passion. Finally she draws back from contemplation of "last things"-death, ultimate commitments-and finds a practical way to go on living with neither illusions nor great hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Insisting on the Moral | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

About 75 Harvard students spent their vacations cutting wood at Sandwich and Waltham to help ease the fuel shortage. Government experts spoke in Sanders Theatre on food conservation, and complaints about the meals served in Mem Hall and the Student Union lost much of their traditional passion...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Many Problems Confronted The Class of '18 | 6/11/1968 | See Source »

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