Word: tenderizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nolte's and Murphy's relationship is more sensitive and profound. Under their white or Black skins, they are not at all the same person. Nolte is a gruff, WASPish, bigoted cop, while Murphy the convict is affluent and civilized. Their developing friendship inspire of themselves provides the tender subplot to this tough movie...
...first few scenes, in which the audience has come to an understanding with the middle-aged Mary build up expectations of the 19-year-old Mary which the younger actress does not quite live up to. Self-centered and enraptured with her tender age and with her talent the younger Mary known as May, strides onto the stage and unabashedly declares she is a genius. But Knice Stetson a B.U. undergraduate plays the part with a too-subdued vivacity...
...challenged matriarch of Morrisonville, Va.; his wife, an orphanage-hardened shopgirl; and especially his mother, who had a "passion for improving the male of the species, which in my case took the form of forcing me to 'make something of my self.' " She had him, at a tender age, delivering newspapers, flogging the Saturday Evening Post and, in preparation for a career in show business, taking banjo lessons...
...ferocious comeback. In Florida, fish and game officials get frequent calls from frightened homeowners demanding the removal of alligators from their backyard ponds or canals. The toothy beasts have attacked swimmers, eaten of alligator skins and meat. A recently published state booklet spells outs the virtues of alligator meat (tender, low fat), which sells in some Louisiana markets for about $3.50 per lb. Environmentalists protest that legalized harvesting will only serve as a cover for more poaching. But many wildlife experts disagree. They say that any measure that makes the hides plentiful, and thus less valuable, will discourage the kind...
...Body" is a tender story-even beautiful-but by no critic's standards is it a work of art. This story, however, acknowledges that reality, and deals with it. As Gordie remarks, "the most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It's hard to make strangers care about the good things is your life...