Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winters is one of the few young actresses with comic timing, and Matthau gives a carefully detailed impersonation of a Californian slipping into his anecdotage. He is both abetted and hindered by his director, a new boy named Jack Lemmon. Matthau and Lemmon first worked together as fellow actors in...
Leo's friend, Marcus Maudsley, uses him as a plaything--one with macabre attractions, to be sure. Leo, the orphaned son of a shabby-genteel pacifist and book-collector, is notorious at his school only because of his black magic. There is no real affection present in the relationship; a...
A woman's reaction often depends upon her relationship with the man. Some single women say that abortion ends any affection they might have felt for the man responsible. Another factor, according to Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik, is that women may unconsciously see abortion as a man does castration.
Sunday Bloody Sunday is an anomaly. Its text is sexual, but its theme is nothing less than the nature of affection. This is the province of the novel, not the cinema, and even so mature a film falters before its destination. But never has an English-language film glistened with...
Especially life at Twin Oaks. The favorite sports are "cooperation volleyball" and skinny-dipping in the South Anna River?false modesty is another of the sins that are not reinforced?and there is plenty of folk singing and dancing. In a departure from Skinner's rather puritanical Walden Two, sex...