Word: affectionate
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Deer's real interest lies in exploring the unexamined assumptions that families live by. Each of the Vaughnums has been suppressing some secret; each ends by realizing that some seeming impossibility has come to pass. While all this adroit plotting is going on, the characters are interacting so naturally, with...
He was the embodiment of big-city scrappiness, a mean-streets survivor who got ahead on a good grin, good moves and better hustle. To a generation of comic impressionists, Jimmy Cagney's mannerisms became part of the standard repertoire: the tough-guy, tommy-gun chatter, the feinted jab to...
...priceless if only for its scathing directness, Nasser's house is divided between traditionally attired and silent females and the Westernized (read: loud) and self-satisfied males. Nasser himself remains an important hair's breadth away from merely detestable because he retains a sense of brotherly loyalty and an affectionate nature--although he does deal in very detestable and profitable muck. The real villain is Nasser's right-hand man, the fully macho Salim, who smuggles drugs and handles the rough stuff of the business...
The dancers somewhat resemble fresh laundry themselves in their loose white costumes. Lying on the floor, they suggest the rotating wash cycle by briskly waving their arms and legs. Later, as the action speeds up, they swing rolled- up sheets that churn around Penny Hutchinson, who plays a sort of...
Movie Star Harris (The Right Stuff, Places in the Heart) finds simmering violence and sudden affection in this man. O'Leary foretokens a sad future when he naively envisions an assembly line as an exhibition hall for his competitive drive and skill. As the youth, Rapp makes the stage glow...