Word: tender
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...since the appearance of her first book of photographs, Passport, she has found a way to look at people who are in foolish situations and come out with pictures that are more complicated than satire. In the same way, she can work among people in painful circumstances and make tender but dry-eyed summations of their predicaments. The characters in her pictures can be simultaneously comical and admirable, sinister and hapless, strange and familiar. You never know entirely what to make of them. She wouldn't want...
...Talk of Many Things" is proof, if it were needed, that for the last 50 years Buckley has been a presence - witty, scathing, philosophical, generous, often surprisingly tender - in the middle of the American conversation. Well, not in the middle; on the right, but perfectly audible elsewhere. His book of speeches is, among other things, a guided tour of the last half century. I am impressed, reading these speeches, at how often Buckley's assessments at the time have been dead-on - about Mao's cultural revolution, about Norman Mailer, about other extravagances. I like the way that Buckley stated...
...represent "the courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye," just a spoiled latch-key kid whose parents didn't hug him enough. Thankfully, the two are saved by the supporting cast. Bill Murray as Polonius injects significant pathos into Polonius' foppish politicking and Liev Schriber demonstrates some exceptionally tender moments before he departs in the opening act. In their short time together, this father-son duo exudes great paternal chemistry, which ends up more compelling than the shallow animosity between Claudius and Hamlet. The film improves in the second half, which by sheer coincidence is when Hawke spends least time...
...someone who has confronted his own mortality and won a deeper understanding of life. "Rudy's got a tremendous amount of compassion, but nobody knows that," says Molinari. "I'm not sure he wants people to know. But as a result of this, people might see the warm and tender side he's never shown...
Rosellen Brown's novels characteristically lob bombshells into well-ordered domestic lives and then calmly assess the ensuing damage. In Tender Mercies (1978), a husband's reckless bravado during a boating trip leads to an accident that leaves his wife paralyzed. Civil Wars (1984) portrays a liberal married couple in Mississippi who receive custody of the two children of Klan-supporting, racist in-laws, killed in a car crash. In Before and After (1992), well-to-do parents discover that their son has murdered his girlfriend. In each book, the page-turning question becomes, Then what...