Word: affectionate
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Were the Oscar voters telling The Last Emperor's director that they loved the movie, they really loved it? Surely there were waves of affection breaking over the winners of the acting prizes: Cher (Moonstruck), Michael Douglas (Wall Street), Sean Connery (The Untouchables) and Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck). But The Last...
In a larger sense, the post-Super Tuesday race for the nomination reflects the national state of mind in the twilight of the Reagan years. Despite some of his recent blunders, the President is still regarded with a powerful affection that has bred a certain reluctance to say goodbye to...
Our wariness in dealing with Israel has thus contradicted our normal noisy, scrutinizing attitudes. Constraint has prevailed, as a sign not of manners but of dishonesty. Most of America has a strong familial affection for Israel (inasmuch as any country has affection for another) as a people, a democracy or...
At our first stop, we witness the slimed zombies of the "pond-scum" cycle. Here, intense fall passion throbs within the confines of the Yard, a house or--horrors--a single entry. However, such wild affection can often mutate into something unrecognizeable. In a matter of weeks, both parties are...
For nearly four years Richard Farley, 39, a computer software technician in California's Silicon Valley, had failed to win the affection of Laura Black, 26, a fellow worker at ESL, an electronics firm in Sunnyvale. But he got her involuntary attention by following and harassing her. In 1986 he...