Word: tenderizers
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...nearly as severe a blow as it is to me." The thorny carapace that later became so famous grew out of his suffering: "I was getting into a sort of Charlie Chaplinish Pagliacci attitude to myself as the man with a tragedy in his life and a tender smile for children. So all that must stop." And in 1930 he converted to Roman Catholicism...
...tender spots in my lower back felt the final ten minutes of treatment from needles so fine that they never broke the skin. The finishing touch: he held a smoldering root, known as moxa, above the treated area to induce relaxation...
Wolves used to slaver a lot. They hung around outside European villages to gobble up grandmothers. They trailed troikas across the frozen steppes, waiting for some tender Muscovite to be tossed their way. They howled through the Canadian wilderness on the heels of succulent trappers lost in the snow. All that has changed. Now wolves are seen as benign and useful citizens of the ecosystem. They protect nature's delicate balance by keeping down those troublesome caribou herds and even practice birth control. Wolves do still howl, of course, but, as Michael Fox reassuringly points out, this is often...
...always screeching things like, "It's the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the father in us is only a hack." Harrison diagnoses in Rich a "fossilized moral imagination," parochialism, whining, polemicism, and a penchant for boring the reader. She says "the tender conscience and the tough mind alike are confounded by this diatribe." Making a plea for intellectual generosity and open-mindedness, Rich's rhetoric leaves no room for a more complex truth. It's refreshing to hear one feminist speak of another with more candor than piety...
Despite the pseudoscientific hokum, a vital ingredient to roman a la King, Firestarter- a bestseller weeks before its official publication date- is the most realistic, even credible novel he has written. Andy McGee and Charlie come across as tender and courageous victims; even some of the stooges, notably a half Cherokee named John Rainbird, show complexity and charm. Though he is not an elegant writer - he is addicted to such objurgations as "You blind, obsessive fools" - Maine-based Stephen King is a superb plotter with a fine eye for terrain and, indeed, pyrotechnical detail...