Word: affectionate
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"American girls are dirty, with no makeup and hair down to here, because they are doing their own thing." U.S. Author Leon Uris (Exodus, Topaz) was sounding off in Sydney, Australia-a stop on a round-the-world tour to gather material for his eighth book. "Society's chief...
As he did in his most popular film, Elvira Madigan, Director Widerberg tends to see events in soft focus. His abiding affection for lambent light produces some beautiful images (a deserted wheat field with a long black train seeming almost to slide across it in the distance), but it plays...
Then to the family house, where the welcoming crowd nearly overwhelmed him with its babbling affection. One bystander, seeing that Agnew was sweating heavily in the noonday sun, whipped out a large white handkerchief and mopped the vice-presidential brow. "He is the greatest Greek," cried another. In a doorway...
It seems that Emily Dickinson suffered an irreparable lack of affection from her mother and that she feared her father terribly. Her mother, from the wisps of evidence that remain, seems to have been a nonentity and herself, emotionally stunted. She brought her children up by a Victorian Dr. Spock...
Laurent (Benoit Ferreux) is the youngest son of a prosperous Dijon gynecologist (Daniel Gelin) and his Italian wife (Lea Massari). Laurent's brothers are well-bred juvenile delinquents, but despite a pronounced affection for mischief, Laurent is different. Hardly into adolescence, he reads Camus and writes essays on existentialism...