Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like her heroes, Monica was born with a passion. She risked everything for tennis. Unlike Hingis and Williams, who were basically raised to be "champions" (and in the case of the Williamses, cash cows), Monica loves the game like no other. She doesn't hesitate in saying that she enjoys practice more than competition (she hates the idea that one person "has to lose...
Propped against the computer in my Lowell House room is a plastic figurine of a bald little man wearing sunglasses, army boots and a skull-and-crossbones T-shirt bearing the words "death before unconsciousness." His presence is not an ode to Hunter S. Thompson, nor to any passion of mine for hallucinogenic substances; instead he stands in homage to G. B. Trudeau, the creator of the political cartoon Doonesbury...
...dyed his hair seven times; then, when he still didn't look old enough, he shaved his head for a wig. Getting inside Wigand's head was more difficult. The two men spent less than two days together in South Carolina, golfing and talking about Wigand's new passion--teaching kids about the addictive ways of tobacco. "He makes it very hard for you to like him. He just doesn't care that much," says Crowe, who feels no need to win friends either. "The thing that I went away with was this thought: that I will honor this...
...mind. When I did come back, I was able to put the game in perspective, that it is only a game. But later in the season, when you realized how important each win was, it didn't change from the past. It's the same hunger, the same passion, the same fire. And I'm happy about that...
...real Al Gore a few years ago when I interviewed him about the environment. The session was supposed to last 15 minutes. It went on for 90 as Gore talked about ozone depletion, at times pulling out charts like a college professor. His passion seemed pretty real, to me at least. At some point in this campaign, though, he decided not to sound wonky--which is probably a mistake if you are, in fact, a wonk. Instead of posing, Gore might follow Gray Davis. As California's Lieutenant Governor, Davis was in a similar bind--second banana, dull, familiar. Instead...