Word: tenderizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea that the men who stormed Iwo Jima and withstood the Kamikazes are creatures too tender to tolerate analysis of the war they fought is more than patronizing. It is intellectually dishonest. The vets would have welcomed analysis of the Pacific war that was minimally accurate, that gave due attention to Japanese depredations and American sacrifice, that was not corrupted by such revisionist nonsense as the suggestion that we might not have dropped the bomb on Nazi Germany because Germans are white. The issue is not that veterans cannot stand analysis but that the analysis offered by the Smithsonian...
...lacks the skill in building ensembles that would have made the end of Act I (the 1969 Stonewall riot) or Act II (a high-camp, dikes-on-trikes gay and lesbian rally) really stirring. His most effective work-in what surely is an operatic first-comes in the tender love duet for Harvey and his boyfriend, Scott Smith, sung while they lie in bed together...
...Though Norma's tender wisdom will continue to grace our pages and quell your angst, Nann has enjoyed her last night out and will now be staying...
...tender age of 27, Noam Elkies became Harvard's youngest-ever tenured professor in 19993. But there's more to Elkies than an incredible talent for mathematics--he's an accomplished musician with a unique sense of humor...
Turturro, (whose brother, John, starred in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing") successfully combines scenes of homophobic rage with tender moments of bathing his weak-brained old dad. His ability to span this emotional range saves "Federal Hill" from a nearly one-sided tone of frenetic boyish energy. While Nicky and his other friends clearly demonstrate their desire to become good men, their performances never quite make the leap from edgy conversation and bravado into deep feeling...