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Word: tendered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generation of viewers may be just as delighted with the shows Gleason has pulled out of his Ali Baba's cave in Florida. One of Ralph's more tender lines to Alice could be applied to each of the four star players: "Baby, you're the greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: How Sweet It Is, Again | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

Depeche Mode, whether they realize it or not, are astride the twilight zone of sentiment, sentimentality, and naked-nipple camp. With a synthesizer beat that commands the dance floor, tender melodies that call for industrial-sized Dramamine, and pretty-boy vocals that would do credit to the Krokodiloes. Depeche Mode somehow manages to subvert the teen-age romantic schlock slot they ought to fit so well...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Aural Fixations | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

Norris as Chicago Police sgt. Eddie Cusack gets a chance to display his full range of histrionic talent: from macho cop to martyr cop to tender...

Author: By Anne EMANUELLE Birn and Joan H.M. Hsiao, S | Title: Machismo on Parade | 5/2/1985 | See Source »

Often Sartre gets down to the brass tacks of pondering existence: "This evening I miss Argentine, the Sahara, all the parts of the world I don't know, the whole earth--and that's much milder, more resigned and hopeless. It's a 'tender suffering' that resembles happiness. It's like missing a life I might have had when I was 'a thousand Socrates'. But now I'm only one. Or maybe two or three...

Author: By Eunicel. An, | Title: Being & Sartre | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...motorcycle gang his mother Rusty hung out with. "I look weird," says Rocky (Eric Stoltz, in a wonderfully authentic performance), "but otherwise I'm real normal." Better than normal. He shines in school, plays Cupid between his mom (Cher) and a rowdy old friend (Sam Elliott), and falls into tender love with a City Lights sweetie (Laura Dern) who can see only his good heart and humor. Metaphorically, Rocky is the beautiful soul hidden in every shy teenager with a bad case of zits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revenge of the Male Weepie: MASK | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

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