Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mandery's interest in athletics is more than just talk. He has a passion for bowling. When at home on Long Island, he often bowls with his father, who is the principal of a public high school. "He's the only person I know who has a picture of a bowler in his room," says Rushika Fernandopulle '89, a former roommate. "I didn't know they made bowling posters...
...members of the film's eponymous secret society (notably Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke) grope with energetic sobriety toward an idea that Keating keeps putting to them every way he can. It is this: the business of education is not to gather facts but to find a ruling passion, something around which you can organize your life. This is a point that seems to elude most kids nowadays, probably because it is one that their popular culture rarely troubles to make to them...
...RAINBOW. Twenty years after cinematizing Women in Love, Ken Russell returns to the questing eroticism of D.H. Lawrence. Given a story worth telling and a heroine (Sammi Davis) worth caring about, Russell can still direct with passion and poise...
...opposite sex. These females gossip, backbite, succumb regularly to the rhythmic fluctuations of their metabolisms. Having achieved some measure of independence or success, they are likely to throw everything over for some handsome rotter or an insincere promise of love and security. Starlady Sandra knows that her new passion will demand the suppression of her lively intelligence: "If only I can hold my tongue I might yet be the one he keeps in his bed, for ever. Craven, yes indeed, but there it is. My female lost to his male...
Cable television was a strapping adolescent when Congress agreed in 1984 to free the industry from regulation to give it room to grow. Since then the business has developed with a passion. Now a vigorous adult, cable reaches 54% of U.S. television homes and has annual advertising revenue of more than $1.8 billion, compared with just $60 million in 1980. But the industry's rapid expansion and newfound clout have prompted sources ranging from consumer groups to motion-picture studios to call loudly for renewed regulation...