Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grace of both performances summons such fond memories, not only makes such comparisons inevitable, but sustains them. When Vicki and Steve make love, they are usually as raucous as they are tender; when they fight, storm warnings are posted. One frantic free-for-all is prompted by Steve's eagerness to have his prowess appraised. "Did the earth move for you?" he inquires (they are in Spain, after all). "It was very nice," Vicki sniffs, sounding a little as if she were recalling the funeral of a distant relative...
...buying and building businesses in the U.S., and this year the country seems to have been turned into a giant supermarket, with foreign buyers rushing in to buy corporations off the shelves. Notes Investment Banker Raphael W. Hodgson, vice president of Goldman, Sachs: "Last month there were seven tender offers for U.S. companies from England alone, and there is no reason why there will not be seven more this month...
...excels at putting down the trappings and pretensions of the middle-class life of Los Angeles with tart asides on stylish psychiatrists discussing the notion of "sport screwing," teen-age swingers, and hip health-food restaurants where satanic waiters recite the menu like an incantation. Yet he can be tender, too, and his characters are never merely clowns or pawns of plot. With a deft and cunning irony, he can point out the essential selfishness of Blume's anguish without ever playing down to it. Occasionally, though, Mazursky loses perspective, and his characters become unintentionally funny. This happens when...
...TENDER CARNIVORE AND THE SACRED GAME...
Cranky and ingenious, exasperating and entertaining, The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game may not quite make it as the gospel of salvation of the season. But it is as hard to put down as a caveman's pet club. Shepard scants no claims for his cureall. Hunting will end war-because hunters "do not make war." Hunting will stamp out heart disease; the anxious jogger is only miming the chase. You can bet that the hunter has no trouble with his sex life either. Shepard goes lyrical about the connection between the kill and the orgasm...