Word: tenderer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shop eats my bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.'" To complete the group there is the gentle failure of a father who lives in the past, and the small-time gangster with a heart of gold who can't express his more tender feelings and who is no more a crook than any capitalist...
...Roman Catholic and a self-disciplined man who worked his way through college, the commander grouses good-naturedly, but with an undercurrent of emotion, about long hair, pop-music Masses at church and the pubic hair that has sprouted in Playboy's gatefold since he left. He is tender and tentative as he tries to get to know his kids again, tries to fit himself back into the world of backyard barbecues and small talk about Little Leagues. His wife, meantime, has tried to explain to the boys "that I was his girl friend as well as their mother...
...professional heartthrob James Caan, have all the depth and charm of a puddle. The only reason for going to see such a harmless piece of pudding is that its co-feature, The Heartbreak Kid, is passably good entertainment. This Elaine May-directed ditty takes a funny but not-too-tender look at a poor schmuck who falls in love, after a fashion, with a shallow American beauty, played to perfection by the evershallow Cybill Shepard. My dentist in Long Island says this movie is unkind to Jewish women, but be that as it may, it's definitely worth seeing...
...many foreign governments, have been seeking to hedge their bets. Gulf Oil, for example, in the last year has tried unsuccessfully to buy the CNA insurance business and even the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circus. Last week Mobil Oil went it one better by announcing plans to make a tender offer for 51% of the stock of Marcor Inc., the parent company of the Montgomery Ward retail chain and Container Corp., a packaging giant...
Mobil, of course, could go ahead with a tender offer to Marcor stockholders without the consent of Marcor's managers. A Mobil spokesman noted that the company has "had a policy since 1968 of seeking out diversification opportunities." Having taken six years to select a suitable partner, the odds are that Mobil will not give up easily...