Word: affectionate
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Are the politicians of the New Right animated by an immaculate affection for free enterprise? Or, perhaps, do their ideologies and regional interests conveniently coincide? It's always popular to debunk the government. But at least he realizes that the domestic function of government is to prevent the economy, where...
FIFTEEN YEARS ago, when women at Mount Holyoke College learned to curtsy as well as to read Baudelaire, every graduating class was acutely aware of its uncommon talents and training, and seniors felt they had to choose missions in life before graduation. Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others recreates...
Out of this sketchy, real-life story--really no more than two incidents--director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Bo Goldman have fashioned a movie of extraordinary warmth and affection. Melvin and Howard is a neon Vermeer, a sensitive and funny look at the absurdities of late 20th-century American life...
And the people's affection for the city shows in more indirect circumstances still - in those quiet, unguarded moments when visitors and residents as well set aside words like access and power and amble among the monuments as subconscious patriots. Children are more demonstrative. They shout up at Lincoln...
Like Preston Sturges, the great American comedy director of 40 years ago whose work this film most resembles, Jonathan Demme understands that however flaky and naive a simple soul's dream may be, it is the thing that sustains him and gives him a reason to live; thus he...