Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coppola says he is committing $1 million to the rebuilding of City, in addition to the $500,000 he lost in its previous manifestation. He promises to keep the magazine going for a year and then reassess his commitment. "If it's a total turkey, I'll close...
There are substantial problems for Pelé and his sport to overcome. The game lacks the orchestrated tactics of football, the rapid-fire scoring of basketball and the internal rhythm of baseball. More important, it suffers from the fact that the majority of Americans do not comprehend and appreciate the...
Mme. Bonnard, whose chatty recollections make up most of the novel, is the quizzical young patronne of a marginally respectable pension just after World War II in Switzerland. Her clientele are a score of moneyed drifters whose principal interest is in living comfortably beneath their means. They include the manic...
The movie satirizes country-and-western people-audience and performers alike-but without condescension and with a palpable affection for their fine, flaky spirit. Nashville stars two dozen actors, many of whom contributed their own songs, a touch that lends the film musical cohesion (and saves on expensive music rights...
Riesman acknowledges throughout his essay that the endeavor is an impressionistic one, inspired and molded by his own emotional and intellectual commitment to Harvard's educational undertaking. His experiences here span almost half a century, and those experiences--both undergraduate and professional--weigh heavily on his analysis of the importance...