Word: heartedness
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Still, there are moments when the writer practically dithers with good-hearted advice to lovelorn friends. At such times, he seems rather sweetly engaged in life's daily emotional traffic, even though Kafka was aware that he could never experience what Thomas Hardy called "the wonder and the wormwood...
Correspondent Galvin came away proud of the behavior of the delegates. Says she: "I have always admired my fellow women. But with a few exceptions, this was the most good-hearted group of people it has been my pleasure to report on - and some of them were downright inspiring." Correspondent...
Dreyfuss aside, The Goodbye Girl is not without its unpretentious merits, the most notable of which is Neil Simon's script. Though the film relies heavily on the mechanical plot devices of '40s boy-meets-girl movies, Simon keeps gratuitous punch lines to a minimum and shows an...
The movie is your basic "boy meets girl" film cut from the Love Story mold and based on a fairly respectable short story that first appeared in the New Yorker. The movie panders to the millions of soft-hearted Americans who thronged to The Way We Were and will throng...
But if death is always a subject with grim overtones, the approach to it in Shadow Box is typically Plimpton--light-hearted, open-minded, and fanciful. Worthy and characteristic "last moments" are contributed by the likes of Terry Southern, Charles Addams, Allen Ginsberg, and Jules Feiffer. Plimpton's own fantasy...