Word: gentler
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...bent old man and a stiff-necked little boy--trudging along a country road together or plodding along the mainstreet of a town. The world I am speaking of isn't the hard-bitten, monkey-trial world of East Tennessee that everybody knows about, but a gentler world...around Nashville which...to the first settlers...was known somewhat romantically, and ironically, and incorrectly even, as the Miro District...
...times' sake, or his small role as a refugee-running boat captain is a remnant of the action-on-the-high-seas melodrama that this movie might have been. If the film makers did consciously reject such material in order to concentrate on the gentler, familial themes of Islands, they made a worthy choice. The pity is that they lacked the artistic energy to bring...
...Francis was an innocent when he first succeeded and so is Sly." Innocent or not, Stallone is probably onto the right screen image at the right time. Boggled by grim, paranoid plots like Marathon Man and savage heroes like the Taxi Driver, audiences may be ready to buy his gentler, uncomplicated machismo. Stallone is sure of it. At a private screening of Rocky for his mother last week he leaped on-stage during the first reel and shouted, "Hey, Ma, I made it. I made it, Ma." Ma nodded and wiped away a tear...
...graphics and illustration, and May has done graduate work in astronomy; Taylor studied biology and Deacon won first-class honors in electronics. Behind the bizarre stagery, in fact, Queen's musicianship is solid. Mercury plays the piano with competence. Although many of his songs suggest raw aggression, a gentler side can be heard in Seaside Rendezvous, a coy confection of muted harmonies and polite French phrases that is slyly reminiscent of potted palms and '20s hotel orchestras. The new album also includes Drummer Taylor's wry valentine to his auto: I'm In Love With...
Wilder soon forces an adjustment of those expectations-neither up nor down, but definitely sideways. His sensibility is gentler and even more childlike than that of his master. Playing a young Sigi Holmes,* a detective suffering a near-terminal case of sibling rivalry because Big Brother Sherlock is always getting the good cases, he becomes a pawn in one of the latter's non-stop games of mastermind with Professor Moriarty. This one has something to do with a stolen state document on which the fate of empire trembles...