Word: affectionate
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John Kennedy's portrayal here is far different from the general tone of last year's tributes. In the move towards liberalism in the Democratic party, Kennedy was actually more of a cautious follower than the courageous leader his media image implied. With the liberal intellectuals who dominated the party...
If Excavation and Attic were perhaps the greatest paintings of de Kooning's long career, the best known are certainly the Women. De Kooning has always been obsessed, as a painter, with the bodies of women, quoting them in whole and in detail, with a unique mingling of distance...
Lafayette's gallant service to the young nation helped contribute to the special affection that still binds the two countries. Yet as Olivier Bernier, an American author born of French parents, points out in this stirring biography, the French did not always have special affection for Lafayette.
His name is Daimon Paine, and the students at the Dudley Co-ops profess a universal affection for their visitor. "He's witty, knows a lot about what's going on, and has an interesting perspective on the world, from someone you wouldn't expect [to have] that kind of...
But then there are no bad performances, no slack scenes, no inattention of any kind in Terms of Endearment. The impulse in praising a film for which there are almost no analogies is to define it by what it is not, but that is really not good enough. It deserves...