Word: affectionate
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To some, like Writer Pete Hamill, the unusual family to which both men belong is an American version of the Castle Irish, a hated nobility. To admirers, the Buckleys represent what is good in family life: unselfconscious affection, vitality, devotion to excellence, a felicitous mix of principle and hedonism. The...
Nixon took dancing lessons to please his steady college date, Ola Florence: one night he appeared at her house, announced that he could dance and immediately proved it. Says Ola Florence: "He was smart and sort of set apart. I think he was unsure of himself, deep down." Another Whittier...
Surprise Ending. Instead, it was a night of wild celebration. In an astonishing show of affluence and affection, black celebrities from all walks -Hank Aaron, Whitney Young, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Mrs. Coretta King, Julian Bond-converged on Atlanta to hail the return of the deposed champion. Streams of customized...
Whatever the success of Beaucoups of Blues, Ringo stands little chance of losing the affection of the millions of Beatles fans for whom he has always been something of a sentimental favorite. Who could forget the A-frame eyes, the cockney nose, the corkscrew grin or the way he had...
Based on Ivan Turgenev's novella, First Love is the deceptively elemental narrative of an adolescent smitten by his father's mistress. "It is a story unusually lit with affection and nature," says Schell. "I decided only one photographer could really do it-Sven Nykvist, the artist who...