Word: tendered
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...didn't look at each other as a man or woman, but as someone we dearly loved. If I ever had a problem, I'd just think of my own wife." However he did it, Barry's portrayal of Georges is suave but concerned, exasperated but tender as well...
...unassuming acting contributes to the honest view of the Australian culture, which is filled with highly disciplined schools and lives off the seashore. Beresford is well known for placing his characters against breathtaking, fresh, wide-open landscapes, whether in America's as in Tender Mercies, or in a war-torn Australia as in the poignant Breaker Moram...
Their faces are soft and pretty, their voices tender and sweet. When it comes to pop music, the Japanese like their stars young and female. Last week the top of the pops belonged to a handful of singers - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Akina Nakamori, Naoko Kawai and Tomoyo Harada- whose claim to fame owes more to their winsome good looks than their modest vocal talent. Says Shig Fujita, an entertainment writer for the Asahi Evening News...
Australian Director Bruce Beresford approaches the adolescent surfing culture of a Sydney suburb as if he were an anthropologist and his subjects were an exotic outback tribe. But the somewhat distant and objective manner that served so effectively to dehydrate his Tender Mercies fails him here. Two girls (prettily played by Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja) scheme to gain admission to the gang, win acceptance and then at last outgrow the group. The tale is not told with great dramatic intensity. Nor is it really as strange and shocking as Beresford seems to think it is. Indeed, to jaded American...
...fairly boiling on the hot sidewalks, you'd see a sarge walking a sloppy corporal back to the ship, the sarge's hand cupping the drunk's elbow to steady him but not to make too much of a spectacle of it. The sight was almost tender...