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The Israelis’ own sporting passions are basketball and football (soccer).
This past Sunday, Showtime presented The Passion of Ayn Rand , with the fierce and smoldering Helen Mirren as the dishy right-wing egomaniac, leaving many otherwise sensible people hungry for the forbidden passions of the libertarians.
Some critics (such as the New York Times ' Maslin) nearly fall out of their chairs in awe at the operatic splendor of the music and pageantry--"blazing with exquisite yet abstract passions."
It seems that the Chinese people vacillate "between craving foreign goods and giving vent to anti-foreign passions."
Backward economic policies and repressive political regimes slip into societies that are without hope, where ambition and passions have no constructive outlet.