Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attachment is usually expressed as love. In a study sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and released this year, researchers analyzed 1,500 "inappropriate" letters sent to dozens of Hollywood celebrities. Only 5% of the writers cast themselves as enemies or would-be assassins. Others saw themselves as business associates, friends or religious saviors. But the rest acted like spouses or suitors. Says Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist in Newport Beach, Calif., who directed the project: "If you didn't know who the two people were, you would think it was a normal love letter." About...
...confidence can come not only from satisfaction in his work but also from a sense that the work has paid off. Out just a month ago, the new album has already gone gold: the title cut, released as a single, sounds similarly hit-bound. It is a ravishing love song, slightly world-weary and bracingly off-center, nostalgic for better loves and wiser times...
Henley knows all the odd angles in the geometry of love. In one of his best songs, Long Way Home, he wrote, "There are three sides to every story:/ Yours, mine, and the cold, hard truth." There seems to be a lot of truth on this new album. Much of it sounds tough, as on one of Henley's favorite tracks, I Will Not Go Quietly ("It kicks ass more than any previous rock-'n'- roll songs I've done"), but nothing is delivered here with the jaded swagger that often got the Eagles branded as a slick bunch...
...struggle for a different sense of place, another state of grace: "I've been tryin' to get down to the heart of the matter/ Because the flesh will get weak and the ashes will scatter/ So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness/ Forgiveness/ Even if, even if you don't love me anymore." Brand new, that song already sounds like a classic...
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. . . it was loathe at first sight. But he (Billy Crystal) learned to accept her (Meg Ryan) with almost no romantic strings attached. The "almost" makes for a witty sexual tension in Rob Reiner's comic valentine to love, friendship and Woody Allen...