Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Musical Entertainment: Gian-Carlo Menotti and NBC, for the "tender and moving one-act opera Amahl and the Night Visitors...
...unfortunately, the unconventional theme gets only heavily conventional treatment from scriptwriter and director, who often trample the story's tender reeds with Mediterranean melodrama. Compensation for these shortcomings: 1) a long, lingering look at Pier Angeli before Hollywood discovered her-in Tomorrow, her first Italian picture, made in 1949, she plays the tragic teen-ager with a gentle glow and an innocent coquetry that makes her far more alluring than most of Hollywood's veteran vamps; 2) a look at brilliant Director Vittorio (Miracle in Milan) De Sica as an actor. De Sica, 49, an Italian matinee idol...
...most fascinating section in this class deals with works on sadism and masochism in love, most particularly, the art of flagellation. One finds among the volumes discussing this subject "The Strap Returns: New Notes on Flagellation," "Presented in Leather," "A History of the Rod: Flagellation and Flagellants," and "Tender Bottom...
...assists against Tabor, will start the game along with Jim Dorsey and John Taylor. Bill Cormack, Tom Crump, and Rip Muse will probably get the defense nod. Dick Simmons will play in the nets but Pickett said that Simmons would probably share goalie duties with Steve Denhartog, starting net tender in the first two games of this season. The midfields will probably remain the same with Tim Anderson, Pete Palchas, and Ed Brown...
Otto Dix is a German painter. He likes to growl, "I'm not so tender." And in pre-Hitler Germany he showed what he meant: cynical portraits of German prostitutes and socialites, gruesome oils and etchings of World War I. The Nazis didn't like the Dix kind of thing at all; they considered his powerful paintings deliberately calculated to spread despondency and alarm. They labeled him an "artistic degenerate," kicked him out of his art professorship at the University of Dresden, and destroyed all the Dix pictures they could lay hands on. Dix retreated to a German...