Word: tender
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...movie Tender Comrade, Ginger Rogers utters the words "Share and share alike--that's democracy." Nobody objected at the time, but four years later, Rogers' mother complained to the House Un-American Activities Committee that her daughter had been forced to express a communist sentiment. The scriptwriter, Dalton Trumbo (who actually was a communist), went to jail for refusing to testify and then spent years on the Hollywood blacklist, unable to get work. But "share and share alike" has been rehabilitated and restored to its place of honor as one of America's finest bromides...
...halt. One of the three big remaining state-owned banks, Halkbank, was supposed to be next on the block, but the government dithered over how to sell it, and now, because of the worldwide financial turmoil, it can't - at least, not for a good price. A September tender for a new nuclear power plant - Turkey's first - was ill-prepared, and turned into a fiasco when all the bidders except for one Russian-led consortium dropped out. A three-year agreement with the IMF under which it would provide Turkey loans of as much as $10 billion, if needed...
...about the setbacks she has suffered since arriving in Beijing. Nonetheless, when opportunities come calling, she is nothing but youthful gratitude: "I gave him my ID number, my Young Pioneers Cinema number, my mobile phone number, my home number and my next-door neighbor's phone number." Guo's tender portrayal of one of youth's abiding contradictions - its simultaneous scorn and passionate appetite for the world - is one of the novel's pleasures. Apart from Fenfang's genuine love of food, this is what the ravenousness of the title is about...
...marble floors, the stone balustrades, the gilt frames, Filippo—all but The Stable Boy dissolved into a ripe sun, a voluptuous ribbon of billowing moor, a stable floor strewn with hay that could not mask the brutal hardness of wood. She felt the splinters scraping her tender back as though it had been yesterday.And he was here in Italy. She knew it with as much certainty as if the painted figure before her were not oils hardened into ridges upon a canvas, but flesh equally hardened by athletic prowess. It was as though a vital, palpitating ghost inhabited...
...Stop Kiss.” Though the title might lead an audience to assume that the plot revolves around the moment when the main characters, Sara (Christina L. Elmore ’09) and Callie (Rachel E. Flynn ’09), finally share that tender moment, it is far from being the pivotal point of this personal and poignant script. The show—which will have three more performances this Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 pm in the Loeb Experimental Theater—instead focuses on the apprehension and complications involved with any unexpected romance...