Word: affectionate
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Hound's action takes place in a theater on opening night. It is a spoof of an Agatha Christie thriller, and Stoppard handles it with prankish zest, though it lacks the urbane comic polish and spine-prickling tremors that Anthony Shaffer put into his Christie takeoff, Sleuth. The subplot...
The Wisconsin campaign was a furious montage of political styles. With mod glasses and carefully darkened hair, 61-year-old Humphrey bounced through 19-hour days. "We can sleep next year," he told his workers. Everywhere, except among college students, he found deep affection, but the warmth did not always...
Premarital sex is taboo in China, and the expression of love and affection is extremely restrained. You rarely see boys and girls together, although there were a few couples strolling on Chung-shan Road along the Whangpoo River in Shanghai. Boy meets girl at school or on the job, or...
NONETHELESS, her career as a woman in a profession cannot be avoided as a point of discussion. Approving of day care only if the parents are unself-conscious about it, she recalls the early years of marriage (she got married at 19) and of babies "being tossed around from one...
At first Judge Turner felt he would have no choice but to return the children to their mother, who, by Czech standards, could provide them with a comfortable home. She had flown to California to press her cause. But in the three weeks before the hearing began, she was able...