Word: tenderize
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...story, from John Bingham's novel Five Roundabouts to Heaven, was first dramatized in 1962 for an Alfred Hitchcock Hour called "The Tender Poisoner," with Dan Dailey as the husband, Jan Sterling as the wife and Howard Duff as the friend. Here, in the script that director Ira Sachs has written with Oren Moverman, the tale in set in the late '40s - prime time for film noir, whose shadowy contours and sleek period architecture the Sachs movie mimes. Of late, noir has often been pretzeled into post-modernism: by Joel and Ethan Coen in The Man Who Wasn't There...
...Mistake,” Hartwig draws upon such broad themes as unrequited dreams while describing a painter’s exhibit: “Huge canvases, on which ideally clean colors fill spaces precisely measured out with elegant geometry. / But in a corner of the room, the tender, delicate drawing of a leaf sketched with a quick masterly line, like a last fetish with which he didn’t know how to part, like the trace of a farewell kiss to nature. / He shouldn’t have shown it.” Hartwig?...
...stories are true, causing the reader to wince even more at the authors’ inevitable slip-ups. And yet, because the tales are confessions, they become all the more endearing. While some of the accounts supply the down-and-dirty details, others have a softer, more tender side. In one of these true tales, Rodney Rothman, former head writer for Dave Letterman, awkwardly talks to a childhood sweetheart about their young love. As their conversation goes on, the awkwardness fades as they gradually realize that their old love never completely went away. The thought that people can sometimes rekindle...
...service and that people should not suppose that we are just around to give out information for free,” Jones said.“When I say I’ll do it for $100, they normally look somewhere else and find someone more tender-hearted,” he added.But John M. Duffy, chair of the Classics department, said he does not find these calls very bothersome.“We’re happy to provide the service,” he said, “as long as it doesn’t become something...
...sings as his colleagues look on incredulously. This awkward moment—the kind in which only one party realizes that the interaction is bizarre and the other believes they are behaving in a completely normal fashion—is characteristic of the tender Israeli comedy “The Band’s Visit.” In this much-lauded film, the eight members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra find themselves stranded in Israel when they take the wrong bus on their way to a performance. They are forced to spend the night with...