Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jobs, meanwhile, remains well aware of the difficulties confronting his new venture and of the crucial importance of timing. "Apple was unique," he once confided. "If we had tried it one year earlier or one year later, it wouldn't have happened." At the still tender age of 30, Jobs will now try to make it happen once again...
Although Fowles is an atheist, the "tender sympathy" for the Shakers that underlies A Maggot is not as unlikely as it seems, for the author is drawn to all forms of dissent, whatever the orthodoxy. Although a novelist of established eminence, he chooses to be "unconnected" to conventional literary life: "I don't know other writers or read any literary magazines. I hate reviewing. I don't lecture or give readings. The novel is a print medium, meant to come through the eyes, not the ears. All that readings show you is whether the novelist is a good actor...
...jacket, salmon-colored jeans, pink socks and gray running shoes with SPIELBERG stamped on the heels, the Mogul of Magic looks just old enough to be the classmate-coach at a college touch-football scrimmage. He has time for everyone, with a few jokes in between: "TV stands for Tender Vittles. That's what we're givin' 'em, folks, Tender Vittles." Spielberg's noncombative vitality infects everyone he works with. Says Richard Donner: "Steven is over your shoulder the whole time. He always bows to you because you're the director, but he's got so many good ideas that...
...Homing Ship, taken eight years after he left Paris, he let a walking sailboat (actually a toy that obscures part of the man carrying it) and an inverted tree (a reflection in a puddle) speak for the yearnings of his own exile. It is a lovely image, unlikely and tender. It also typifies his knack for keeping sentimentality at bay in even the most tempting circumstances. His pictures are sweet-tempered but never pat, heartfelt but not tearstained, legible but rarely obvious...
Most of the passion attending 1918 was spent in getting the story on film. This is a family movie in every sense of the term. The writer is Horton Foote (Tender Mercies), who based his script on incidents in his parents' lives in Wharton, Texas. Foote's wife was one of the film's producers; his son worked as an actor, casting director and production assistant; the bed in which Horace ails belonged to Foote's parents; the baby born at film's end is most likely the author. And the leading lady is Foote's daughter Hallie. A vanity...