Word: affectionate
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She still teaches ballet in her spare time. Independently, the two discovered-and became part of-the ragtime revival. Jones borrowed two unpublished volumes of Joplin's works and tried them on his piano for six hours straight, developing a sore left wrist from Joplin's thumping bass...
There was nothing mysterious about the Foreign Minister's sudden affection for Japan. With President Nixon about to leave for Peking, and Tokyo-Washington relations still strained over the U.S. economic and diplomatic shokkus, it was obviously a good moment for the Soviets to reopen their dialogue with the...
The murderer is a butcher (Jean Yanne) recently returned to his home town of Tremolat in the province of Périgord after more than a decade in the army. He begins a casual flirtation with a schoolmistress (Stephane Audran), a woman of distinctly cosmopolitan charms who invites his friendship...
The football-viewing syndrome is even harder on women because they generally cannot identify with the sport their husbands follow so passionately. "Biological and cultural conditioning of females fuses sexuality with tenderness and affection," explains Golden. Women, therefore, "view football as a display of man's brutal aggressiveness, since...
Shakespeare's Thane is a man possessed by his own craving for power. He is destroyed by the evil within himself, not, as Polanski would have it, by witchly auguries of doom. Polanski is most at home dealing with black magic, and Macbeth's second meeting with the...