Word: passion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bell's passion for biking and skiing also appealed to the committee...
Rolled together with his other passion: video games. Tajiri was raised on Space Invaders in the early days of the video-game revolution. He never went to college but studied electronics at a two-year technical school. He spent much of his time at arcades, perhaps the very ones that grew over the ponds of his childhood. "It was as sinful as shoplifting," Tajiri says. "My parents cried that I had become a delinquent." He was such a fanatic that one arcade gave him a Space Invaders machine to take home...
...finding the shading of realism in what could be a cartoon of misery--is made all the more harrowing by the film's intense, handheld scrutiny of her face in almost every shot. The purity of Dequenne's performance inspires awe. To a grubby life she brings dignity, clarity, passion, glory...
...next intended, the only thing pushing the plot is relentless coincidence--a movie this implausible shouldn't be this dull--and a very aggressive score that tells you what you would have felt if the film (from the director of The Sweet Hereafter) had been made with more passion and craft. Only Hoskins rises above the dankness. His malevolence is fastidious, wistful; he's a sadist with a schoolboy's heart...
...will pay such prices? Some Wall Street millionaires, among others. But the bidders will also include a handful of billionaires from Silicon Valley, where wine collecting has become a passion. One night in New York City recently, two NASDAQ princes sitting at adjacent dinner tables ran up four-figure wine tabs. Both said they were just warming...