Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They were then treated to 25 minutes of the sort of anti-Washington, pro-free-enterprise punch lines that Reagan has used to wow audiences since 1964, when he campaigned for Barry Goldwater. But Reagan delivered his speech with far less passion than he has in the past. This time he is the front runner, and in an attempt to broaden his appeal, the former California Governor seems to have banked the fires that once frightened more moderate G.O.P. factions...
...production is often strikingly effective, and Paul Monash has written a script that conveys pity without mawkishness. What either he or Director Delbert Mann, who has chosen a flat, documentary style, has not managed to evoke, however, is the passion of Remarque's book or the intensity of that creaky but wonderful 1930 movie. This All Quiet is so dutifully, ploddingly good, indeed, that it might almost be shown...
...just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience." Singer is not referring to the warmth of the family or the affection of the blessed for those less fortunate. He is talking about sex. Well he might. At 75, the author shows no diminution of passion or of his celebrated capacity for fusing the erotic with the grotesque...
Directed and Written by Steven Milliard Stern At first it seems that Running might turn out to be that salutary and as yet un realized item, a cautionary tale about a man who lets his passion for jogging run away with him. Michael Andropolis (Michael Douglas) is discovered living in a cold-water flat in one of Manhattan's least appetizing districts, a couple of attempts at a respectable career left behind, his wife and two young daughters abandoned also...
...sacrificed everything, it seems, in order to take one last shot at a long-held dream: winning a place on the U.S. Olympic team as a marathoner. This is material for a comedy of obsession, the story of a man possessed by a mad and inexplicable passion...