Word: passionately
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Mildred, who, even as a tubercular, was played with bumptious enthusiasm by Cloris Leachman. As the clubfooted Philip, Tom Helmore seemed wooden-faced and without passion. Nearly as much drama was packed into the commercials (Tintair), which starred June Havoc, Joyce Mathews and a model who triumphantly completed dyeing her mouse-blonde hair to brunette while Maugham's characters were struggling to their happy ending...
...been these past 25 years. She visualized Jesus on the Mount of Olives, which brought sweat to her body and blood dripping from her eyes. Then, all of a sudden, just before midnight, her eyes stopped bleeding. She was further tortured in her visions of Jesus' passion and felt mental and physical pains as she had done before. But the bleeding had stopped completely . . . We must take the naked facts as they are. Maybe it was a divine protest against these mass visits organized by money-chasing businessmen...
...room, one-telephone hunting lodge in the forest at Marly-le-Roi, near Versailles. But every August, for a real vacation, they go back to the rose-walled house in Muret, close by the swift-flowing Louge. This is the France which Vincent Auriol, with a Frenchman's passion for the soil, loves best...
...that time forced Mr. Munch to cut some superb music, particularly since the arise and choruses left out make up much of the character of the "Matthew Passion." But he was quite right to keep the recitative intact, for the composer himself, when obliged to cut, did the same thing...
When Bach performed the "Passion," he had the congregation join in the chorales heartily. The accompaniment was full orchestra, fortissimo, and this is the way it should always be, even today. The way Mr. Munch did it, a cappells, pianissimo, was very effective but not historically accurate. Some modern audiences have shown willingness to join in the chorales, but perhaps the Friday afternoon patrons would...