Word: tenderizers
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...film's equally unconvincing technical composition inspires tender sympathy for its well-meaning unprofessionalism. In order to emphasize the mental concentration and the spiritual intensity of racing, Hudson treats nearly all the running sequences--training sessions, sprinting for fun, competitions--with the old foggy slow-motion treatment, and the symbolism weighs heavily. Add to this ponderous device the dreadfully outdated technique of indicating a quick rise to fame by presenting quickly-revolving newspapers that stop twirling long enough to exhibit a banner headline, and the verdict must be: technical naivete...
...observer watched him with a kind of tender contempt. How could he-and yet why not? Nixon had been disgraced, the other two had been turned down by the electorate; all, for those few hours, were sipping again at the cup of power...
...Americans always claim their dispensation. A dream house has been a vision at the core of American hopes, a tender blend of expectation and nostalgia. It derives its imagery from the historical spaciousness of the land (God's country, after all, his bounteous land grant, the interminable individualist homestead unfolding toward the horizon) and the simultaneous need for shelter that its harshness imposed. A people so socially and geographically mobile used housing as an instrument to trumpet their wherewithal, their substance, their civic presence. They have sometimes nearly impoverished themselves to anchor their identities in their homes...
...NOTEBOOK: Carrillo, whose sprained ankle was still very tender Saturday, should be ready for Tuesday's contest at Brown. Although they dropped two contests this week, 6-1 to UMass and 4-3 to Princeton, the Bruins should be Harvard's toughest opponent to date...
...tone from his childhood in a small Texas town off the gulf. Nita Longley (Sissy Spacek), a divorced woman with two sons, works in an isolated house as the town's switchboard operator. She meets a fresh-faced sailor (handsomely played by Eric Roberts); there is a tender affair, another man (Sam Shepard), a pair of resentful layabouts, an abrupt slash of melodrama. Except for the denouement, Raggedy Man proceeds with the even pace of a journey over the Texas plains as seen through a child's wide eyes...