Word: affectionate
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George develops a jealous and possessive affection for Simone, trying to please her aristocratic tastes in a sad, bumbling, endearing way, sipping tea instead of Bloody Marys. In one scene, a waiter approaches him, "Bloody Mary, right?" "No, I'd like a pot of tea," George replies in his wonderful...
"She became our mascot," said sectionmate Lisbeth Barron. "Anything that must have gone wrong Betsy must have done it." Added Jonathan Bower, "Betsy nosed out Mr. Potato Head for our affection." One student is rumored to have handed in a final exam with Spence's name on it.
A bulging man with flashing eyes and a gray goatee, Giamatti has probably muttered "Damn Yankees" once or twice before but favors neither young Joe Hardy nor old Joe Boyd as much as Mr. Applegate. He claims no athletic laurels. "I was the kid in high school who carried water...
Sperber is neither a subtle reader of Murrow's prose nor, despite her Fulbright-scholar background in political science, a decisive analyst of his ideology. She does evoke the shy, moody, sometimes preening yet fiercely loyal man who inspired such admiration and affection. Still, this should not be the conclusive...
The title refers not to Castro's island but to an illiterate Hispanic drug dealer (De Niro) and his much cuddled, much cuffed adolescent son Teddy (Ralph Macchio, star of the movie The Karate Kid). Also on the scene are the father's oafish partner in crime (Burt Young, an...