Word: affectionate
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During the extended break, #25 wins $10 worth of wine and #260, no doubt in ecstasy, claims his new battery-operated pencil sharpener. The rest lie supine, giving each other an occasional back massage or other gesture of affection.
In his early teens Moore learned how to win affection, and the lesson has dominated his life: people like to laugh, and they love those who can make them do so. Having discovered that vintage truth, he became the class clown. Says he: "I think it's every comedian...
The artist in question is Mags (short for Margaret) Church. She lives in Manhattan and is about to have a one-woman show at a 57th Street gallery. With pride and belated affection, she visits her patrician parents on Boston's Beacon Hill. The house, which has been sold...
The biographer himself has been transformed. Morgan changed his name from Sanche de Gramont in 1977 when he became a U.S. citizen. The son of a diplomat had been raised as a hereditary count in one of France's oldest aristocratic families. A graduate of Yale, Morgan detailed his...
Each Monday, Thurman left her husband Jonathan David, a cinematograpner, in Manhattan to work 16-hour days in a Long Island cottage. There she subconsciously evoked a mood by wearing Dinesen's favorite perfume, Fracas. "It was eerie," she remembers. "The identification was very deep." Almost every line demonstrates...