Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rare voices-a raspy, surcharged cross between Joe Cocker and Rod McKuen-that is instantly recognizable and that can draw all sorts of emotional magic from his own songs (Maggie May, Every Picture Tells a Story) as well as standards by Dylan (Only a Hobo) and Elton John (Country Comfort). As a sometime member of the good-time British rock-'n'-roll band known as Faces, he is one superstar who is out mostly to have fun. That includes giving a humorous zing to his guitar playing, handing bottles of wine to lucky members of the audience...
Love memorably chronicles a year in the life of a woman (Mari Torocsik) whose husband has been jailed for unspecified political crimes by the Hungarian secret police. The husband's aging mother is dying. To comfort her, the woman writes long letters, supposedly from the husband, about his fantastic adventures as a film director in America. The old woman (Lili Darvas) finally passes away without ever knowing that her son is in jail. The wife endures, and abruptly, without explanation, her husband (Ivan Darvas) is released and returns home. The moment of their reunion, impeccably acted, rendered with poignant...
...included in a future government, but any such suggestion has been met with blustery defiance. In a speech nominally aimed at the French but probably intended for the Americans, Thieu said, "I severely warn the colonialists against interfering in the internal affairs of the South Vietnamese people and providing comfort to the North Vietnamese invaders, either by words or deeds...
...George McGovern, there was the constant cry for self-sacrifice, to reach out beyond oneself to help and teach and preach. Personal striving was part of it, but people should be uplifters, missionaries, and should share with the poor, comfort the bereaved...
...five years I spent at Harvard and the personal relations that I had there were a beautiful, beautiful thing. The people I coached and coached with were great. They understood my weaknesses and my strengths, and I'd be wrong not to say that it was a real comfort to be in a community where rowing is as important as it is at Harvard...