Word: tenderized
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...scenes shared between Jackson and Jessica Tandy as her mother provide the only emotionally credible moments in the play. Family is the tie that blinds, and the two women take the blindfolds off in affecting sequences, particularly when Tandy, an actress of indelible grace, reveals to Rose moments of tender and tantalizing intimacy with her late husband. The severest irritant in the play is Davies' use of Jackson as a narrator and monologuist addressing the audience directly. This is a drastic "alienation effect" for which Brecht himself would have disowned his disciples. For the rest, Jackson performs Herculean labors...
...orthodox rabbi, singing Hebrew, is murdered by Cossacksin Russia; his son Zalmie immigrates to America, hanging out in smoky vaudeville dance halls, entranced by the grotesque bodies of showgirls. He grows up fast, losing his virginity in a dressing room after a mock strip tease. Trying to appear tender and symbolic, Bakshi never fleshes out the people enough to make them more than the cartoons they...
Meanwhile, a sophomore student at nearby Lehigh Valley Vocational-Technical School printed up 300 false $1 bills on his own. He even took the precaution of including the legend "This Is Not Legal Tender" on his counterfeits...
Perhaps it is Ronald Reagan's pervasive faith in pageantry that set the stage. Whatever its origins, that sense of dignity is an important part of the new Administration's appeal in these first tender weeks. Dignity is not leadership, but it creates an aura of care and concern...
...orchestra. It has been said that the Ravel work is such a perfect distillation of orchestral and vocal art that it resists dramatization, that no physical embodiment of it is possible. Perhaps.Yet the Met does justice to the masterpiece with an approach that is both witty and tender, and one leaves under the spell of Ravel's miracles...