Word: affectionate
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During his career in Washington, few newsmen commanded more respect or as much affection. He first came to Washington in 1946 as the junior partner of his brother Joseph in their syndicated newspaper column "Matter of Fact." As scions of an old Republican Connecticut family, the Alsop boys were in...
In his feeling for the almost reflexive defenses of masculine camaraderie and for its excesses, with his eye and grudging affection for Western lowlife, Cimino has an obvious affinity for the work of Sam Peckinpah. What really animates Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, though, and makes it distinctive is its shellbursts of...
But no matter. Lyons retained the affection of both his subjects and his readers for decades. He conveyed the sense of having been there, of caring about what he wrote. In a time when the famous were more distant and more different from their audience than today, Lyons was an...
Cooper makes sure that each artist has paid her $20 membership fee and $2 entry fee. Each artist makes sure that she rests in Cooper's affection. "They all use me," says Cooper, "because they think I can sell their work. All they want is to sell something. For their...
In Flavors of Exile the sun bakes down on two adolescents sitting under a pomegranate tree. The last piece of fruit falls-overripe, fermenting, already crawling with ants. The boy takes a stick and skewers the fruit as casually as he has already skewered the girl's affection for...