Word: affectionate
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The Libyans, who make a point of observing the niceties of the relationship between host and guest, were understandably cool to the U.S. correspondents. "Their mood was sullen and angry," notes TIME's Fischer, "but their hostility did not seem directed at us." After Gaddafi's brief TV appearance Wednesday...
The American (Anthony Heald) has failed to sort out the conflicting impulses of his roles as observer, returning revolutionary, reunited friend and working journalist. His former cellmate (Joe Urla) pecks away at poetry but works primarily for a malign, fanatical government minister. In rich and subtle performances, the opponents lacerate...
It was Forman who directed Cagney in Ragtime, the 1981 film that brought him back into the public eye after two decades of retirement. After completing Billy Wilder's 1961 comedy One, Two, Three, Cagney vowed to quit filmmaking. Content in the company of his wife and a small circle...
There is no doubt that Katz, at 58, is one of the few painters who are equally popular with critics and the public in America; he is, judging by the affection his work seems to evoke, the Norman Rockwell of the intelligentsia. To doubt the ultimate value of Katz might...
Or as Gay rather weightily puts it, "There was in fact one essential principle on which cynics, metaphysicians, researchers, and ordinary bourgeois could cheerfully unite: true love is the conjunction of concupiscence with affection." This seems a rather obvious thesis to attract all the firepower that Gay devotes to it...