Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, this gives Wink time for some rueful reflections. After all, he remembers the New England hurricane of 1938, before Gin was two. He remembers Benny Goodman, and he cannot forget Freud and girls who marry father surrogates. Then there is Gin's mother. As a penthouse-mistress of the theater and TV set with a not-so-secret yen for Wink, she resents a marriage that will blight the promise of adultery. What with mother and some complicated skulduggery back at the NBS network, it sometimes seems that the rice will never fly, but it does...
...known as a platinum-haired prowline, demonstrates surprisingly that she is also a singer. Equipped with a clear, flexible voice and a natural knack for phrasing, she works her way with equal ease through ballads (Imagination) and rhythm songs (Come By Sunday), giving all of them a raffish and rueful charm...
...entertainment, The Good Soup needs more sass and zest. But Soup, with the story it has to tell, need not only be as frothy as champagne, or as French as snails; it can also, and with rewards of its own, be as French as money. There is nothing girlishly rueful or gallantly raffish about Marie-Paule; though now and then touching, she is cynical and hard. "I don't forgive," she says, "even the ones who have done nothing to me." She was not ruined or misled; she was never sentimentally tempted or morally torn; the one time love...