Word: affectionate
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The private reality of a star is set apart not so much by the events it consists of as by the emotions that it inspires. The specialness, in the end, comes from the same thing that turns the private person into a public actor: an emotional apparatus so overactive that...
Israel Horovitz's screenplay relies too heavily on standard cliches and observations. The relationship between Ivan (a Broadway playwright played by Pacino) and his extended family (five kids, only one of whom is really his) never develops. The existence of an eccentric bond between adult and children remains a given...
An academic turned industrialist who has held three Cabinet-level portfolios, Shultz would undoubtedly have been a prime candidate for any major post that fell vacant in the Reagan Administration. "I met no one in public life for whom I developed greater respect and affection," wrote former Secretary of State...
Some family. Shirley is a theatrical producer and literary agent. Burton is a celebrated biographer and New Yorker staff writer. And their older brother? Who else? Lenny, the conductor, lecturer, composer and 63-year-old Wunderkind. Family Matters follows all the Bernsteins from obscurity to celebrity, traveling the pull of...
That both these wars seem related at all is curious, given the blatant differences between them. The fight in the Falklands came as a shock, both for its ferocity and its stakes. The invasion of Lebanon surprised no one, except insofar as one is always surprised to see somebody do...