Word: tenderer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the most complex minds in France. "Too fastidious for plain statement, he proceeds by insinuation," André Gide wrote of him in 1905. "There is nothing sentimental or highfalutin about the discreet melancholy which pervades his work. Its dress is that of everyday. It is tender and caressing, and if it were not for the mastery that already marks it, I should call it timid. For all his success, I can sense in Vuillard the charm of anxiety and doubt...
...academic standards of its time, the figure of Annette on the Beach at Villerville (1910) is a botch-drawn as though made of string and plasticine, the skirt rendered in weird and only semilegible notations of white paint. Yet Vuillard caught with tender and ironic precision the way that people actually stand when they are not observed-along with the scoured blue of the Atlantic sky and the distant, promenading couples. It is like an amateur snapshot. Vuillard was, in fact, one of the first artists to use a Kodak systematically. It was his habit to set up his camera...
Defensive tackle Mark steiner, who didn't play against Brown, has a tender shoulder, but will start Saturday...
...production itself is first rate. Don Bacon's recreation of the atmosphere of a run down sawdust bar will warm the hearts of inveterate bargoers. The acting is very fine. Hope Schlorholtz gives a powerful portrayal of the burnt-out hussy Leona. She conveys the ambiguity of tender nature turned corrosive through failed aspirations. Tom Wells looks like he learned his part of the Hollywood faggot while listening to a James Brown record. He and John Rudman, the Iowa corn boy, produce some very comic visual effects flirting at their table. Terry Steiner deserves credit for salvaging the deficient role...
Bowens had a tender shoulder from the Dartmouth game and Ferullo wound up with a banged-up knee. Hevern's injury was probably the most gruesome. He got a finger jammed into his eye early in the game, and was unable...