Word: tenderizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotional depth that shames the plot's cliches. Casey uses the songs to suggest contradictions in Lil's character that the script brushes over. In the biting "Sailor's Tango"--sung to convert Bill-the evangelist smolders with sexual invitation. She turns the haunting denunciation of love into its tender yet rueful opposite--a declaration of her feelings for Bill in "Surabaya Johnny...
...shared experiences between Emily (Barbara Feldon) and Ralph Michaelson (Laurence Luckinbill). They exchange acid legal briefs about the past, his ten years of alcoholism, her refrigerated emotions. He is an ad man glad to land a new account; she gnawingly wants to settle an old account. Their reminiscences grow tender as they conjure up growing children and the death of a toddler son. In a sudden access of intimacy, past desire becomes present lovemaking - yet the play's defect is that Emily and Ralph seem to be separating simply because they have run out of things...
...read that a special friend had been singularly remembered. After monetary bequests and disposition of paintings, photographs and papers accumulated in a lifetime of photography, writing and theater, Beaton made another gift. To Actress Greta Garbo, now 74, who in the 1940s rebuffed Bachelor Beaton's tender of love and marriage, went a remembrance: an exquisite oil of one red rose, by an unknown 19th century Italian...
Gradually, with the help of Marie St. Jacques, a Canadian economist whom he abducts and then saves from a brutal rape, Bourne-Cain learns that he is a tender, brave man as well. But Carlos is determined to destroy his reputed rival. So are Cain's former masters in the Washington intelligence establishment, who had originally set him up to trap Carlos and are now persuaded that he has turned. Bourne's deadliest enemy, however, is his former self. The only credentials he can recover from his past are those of a sadistic executioner in Viet...
...life. Partway through freshman year I had a fiery emotional involvement with a guy who lived in my dorm. We were both immature and it ended with a lot of hurt feelings, but I'd learned that sex with a man wasn't dirty, in fact it could be tender and fulfilling, and even more important, I'd seen that I could care deeply for a man, give my love to him, and live a fuller life for it. Slowly I began to "come out" to my friends, and if they were shocked at first, they usually saw that...