Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their faces are soft and pretty, their voices tender and sweet. When it comes to pop music, the Japanese like their stars young and female. Last week the top of the pops belonged to a handful of singers - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Akina Nakamori, Naoko Kawai and Tomoyo Harada- whose claim to fame owes more to their winsome good looks than their modest vocal talent. Says Shig Fujita, an entertainment writer for the Asahi Evening News...
Australian Director Bruce Beresford approaches the adolescent surfing culture of a Sydney suburb as if he were an anthropologist and his subjects were an exotic outback tribe. But the somewhat distant and objective manner that served so effectively to dehydrate his Tender Mercies fails him here. Two girls (prettily played by Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja) scheme to gain admission to the gang, win acceptance and then at last outgrow the group. The tale is not told with great dramatic intensity. Nor is it really as strange and shocking as Beresford seems to think it is. Indeed, to jaded American...
...fairly boiling on the hot sidewalks, you'd see a sarge walking a sloppy corporal back to the ship, the sarge's hand cupping the drunk's elbow to steady him but not to make too much of a spectacle of it. The sight was almost tender...
...cult of Sainte Foy (Faith), says Remensnyder, reflected a crucial transition from earlier, more imposing representations of saints to post-11th century cult figures, who, she explains were "merciful, tender, personal figures." In addition to reviewing documents and books on her subject, the senior actually visited the French village of Conquers, center of the Sainte Foy cult. She describes it as "a very, very wild area, overlooking a mountainy river gorge--I thought I would die trying to reach...
Duvall, a gifted, risk-taking actor for 20 years (Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies), plays men whose rage seems about to explode from their guts. Always Duvall watches, looking for the tiniest tear in society's fabric. As the entrepreneur of Angelo My Love, he has found a dozen spirited gypsies tumbling out of that hole, victimized by their historical typecasting as scavengers and scoundrels...