Word: affectionate
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Act II, six years later, scars the picnic ground with revelations. In their vulnerability, the characters elicit the playgoer's binding affection. The artful cast is gently persuasive, and Director Brian Murray displays an unerring hand at stirring the evening's fun and folly. - T.E.K.
Bradbury's spare, economical style reveals the consummate storyteller. But it conceals the moralist. Other science-fiction writers may celebrate technology; Bradbury warns readers to be wary of it. Other fantasists may admire power or cunning; Bradbury saves his praise for the fragile fabric of civilization, and extols the...
They are ordinary people, if by that one means that they enjoy conventional middle-class prosperity and adhere to traditional family values. If the problem that the Jarrett family faces-an adolescent son trying to recover from a mental breakdown signaled by a suicide attempt-is perhaps an extreme one...
Marvin's performance is the best in a film full of good actors. He may be playing the hardened sergeant for the umpteenth time but his heart is finally in it. With his rumbling voice, he tosses off dialogue that a lesser actor would choke on. The paternal affection he...
Marvin's performance is the best in a film full of good actors. He may be playing the hardened sergeant for the umpteenth time but his heart is finally in it. With his rumbling voice, he tosses off dialogue that a lesser actor would choke on. The paternal affection he...