Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Novelist Flanagan, 56, is a longtime English professor (University of California, State University of New York) who has spent much of his spare time over the past two decades in Ireland. He is an unabashed Mayo chauvinist, and his lyric affection for the land and the people animates his characters...
It is a throwback to the fighting love stories Hollywood used to do in the 1930s: hero and heroine take an instant dislike to each other, then find grounds for affection in the course of squabbling their way through the picture. In this case the premise involves a successful perfume...
If there is such a thing as a foolproof movie, Escape from Alcatraz must be it. Throw together Clint Eastwood, an airtight jailbreak plot, a first-rate storyteller like Director Don Siegel ... and what could possibly go wrong? As it happens, almost nothing. True, Escape from Alcatraz embraces virtually every...
Charisma was not the word to describe what had happened. Returning to his homeland for the first time since he was chosen Pope last October, Karol Wojtyla, John Paul II, stirred an outpouring of trust and affection that no political leader in today's world could hope to inspire, let...
The Pope's skill with crowds and affection for people, however politic they appear, seem to be more a matter of character than of calculation. John Paul appears almost driven to be out among his flock. "This Pope is not a workaholic; he's a live-aholic," observes...