Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans have a longstanding affection for the people of Cuba. Our cultural and economic ties grew stronger throughout this century-until the advent of Communist rule. Obviously we would like to restore them [July 28].
Nicholson has a genius for creating pungently unlikable characters, but not cartoons. He is best playing the kind of handsome, slightly cheap con-man whose tentativeness at the wrong time shows that he's secretly more than a pushover--a brazenly healthy specimen with a weak-willed, soft-hearted core...
Beatty has also been stripped. His buoyant sensuousness and vulnerability have been sheared off, leaving only sullenness. Cast as the wrong kind of stud, he plays a priggish, humorless, overdressed dandy, with pencil-thin eyebrows and moustache, who acts like an eight-year-old. Nicholson plays a bratty little brother...
He wanders over to a wall, where there are a set of photographs of Seminole, the town in Pennsylvania where he was born in 1917, a town he has only recently developed enough affection for to want to hang pictures of it on his wall. It's a dead town...
But his greatest achievement is in the minds of these treacherous, demanding, hopelessly in love Red Sox fans, for he has awakened in them the purest essence of their love for Boston and baseball, he has transported them back to a Land of Oz. And as usual, this nirvana is...