Word: affectionately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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She is clearly very fond of her characters. Phillips' love for Ruth and her dopey but sweet husband Henry comes through in the book, and gives the reader a special insight and affection for the characters. Phillips also points out that her fondness for her characters helped her return to...
Call it the Sleepless in Seattle phenomenon. When screenwriters want to create a really sympathetic man, an unequivocal good guy or just the ultimate romantic lead, they make him a widower, as Tom Hanks was in that 1994 film: no complicated sexual history, no fear of commitment, no ugly divorce...
Hodgkin, whose good-luck god is the French intimiste Edouard Vuillard (he of the dots, of the closely tuned interior scenes that vibrate with a sense of life amply lived and yet separate from public events), is a connoisseur and collector as well as an artist. The two don't...
Yet blowsy as it is, this biography of the great American humorist has some appeal. Begun as an undergraduate thesis in 1948, it has been the avocation of a lifetime for Kinney, who is a free-lance writer. His children, now grown and gone, have lived with it all their...
Ironically, one of the most interesting threads that runs through the book is Mapplethorpe's long-time relationship with the singer and writer Patti Smith. After the failure, for obvious reasons, of their sexual relationship, the two became lifelong friends finding comfort throughout their lives in their own warped version...