Word: affectionate
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De Niro is Jack Byrnes, formerly (or maybe not so formerly) a CIA operative, projecting an air of sweet reason from his suburban colonial home. That it contains a secret lair equipped with a lie detector is nobody's business. That the lyrics of his favorite song, Puff the Magic...
What Joe and Sammy cannot elude is the postwar era. With graphic comic-book imagery, Chabon writes that the classic superhero "had fallen beneath the whirling thresher blades of changing tastes." By the '50s, Kavalier and Clay are not only old hat but also targets of a congressional committee investigating...
Nane calls his compassion "part of his core. In Swedish we have a word--'cast whole.' That is him." The two met in Geneva. It was, she says, a thunderbolt when she saw him at a friend's party. Their marriage--16 years now--was a second marriage for both...
Coloroso's book, which also covers divorce and illness, is a true self-help book, and she is an adherent of pop-psych locutions. The "five S's" of suicide and murder, she says, are "stigma, shame, secrets, silence and sin." The "TAO" of family is an acronym for the...
In his later years, when his genius had pried him from anonymity, Guinness played all manner of historical celebrities, from Marcus Aurelius to Pope Innocent III, Hitler to Freud. By then, his eminence had become a cloak that he wore with cool majesty. It was like his "mischievous dolphin smile...