Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piece by Willem Kalf stands out among the nine still lifes in the exhibition. His rich colors and intricate brushwork, with a complete attention to detail and a skillful rendering of textures and density make this piece exceptionally exciting. But the nine paintings convey none of the Dutch passion for collections of little objects or the broad range of subjects and styles in Dutch still life painting. As a group, these few pictures present an inadequate view of this important kind of painting...
Every first-rate criminal lawyer has a consuming passion: to get his client acquitted. It is a passion that troubles many Americans. If the accused seems to be an obvious crook, how can any honest lawyer fight for his freedom...
...turned 18, spent his wartime service as an aviation cadet. After his discharge, he got a mechanical-engineering degree at Purdue before rejoining the Air Force in 1950 to stay. He flew 100 combat missions in the Korean War, later became a hot-shot test pilot. He had a passion for speed, on water, land or in the air: he took up powerboat racing, teamed up with Astronaut Gordon Cooper to buy a piece of a racing car entered in last year's Indianapolis...
American literature has often been starved for lack of a grand theme-a Tolstoyan war, a Flaubertian passion, a Jamesian conflict of cultures. The Ne gro revolution, at once violent and vital, agonizing and altruistic, could provide such a theme. Novelist Ann Fairbairn tries to tackle it in this ambitious, achingly overwritten epic. The result is a compelling argument for instant Black Power-if only to avert a sequel...
...Open the jug of rum and give me a swallow to clear my throat." That is the way tales are begun in northeastern Brazil. And when the storyteller is Jorge Amado, it is well to take another swallow and settle back for an epic journey into passion, music, gambling, a bit of fighting and all manner of discursive side trips; Amado holds that there is "nothing worse than telling a story hurry-scurry, slipshod, without carefully analyzing everything...