Word: tenderizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fitch's memories are just as scary, but in his case the darkness descended at the tender age of eight. Fitch, now 19, spent his early years imagining that historical figures such as Czar Nicholas II lived at his home. He insisted on dressing formally at all times, in a coat and tie or in historical costumes, and he avoided the gaze of people pictured on magazine covers. Watching him boogie the night away at the prom, his mother recalled the last time she had seen her son near a dance floor, six years earlier: "We went to a wedding...
...ordered his army to use "force, strength and blows" to stop the intifadeh. He is the ex-general who, during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, proposed tightening up the siege on Beirut by cutting off food and water to the populace. This reserved, taciturn man is no tender heart, no dove...
Minkus was introduced to sports at the tender age of five. In the first game she ever played--a soccer match--she scored the winning goal...
...door clicks shut in his face, McInerney, 37, appears with an entirely grownup novel about the end of the '80s. It's a funny, self-mocking, sometimes brilliant portrait of Manhattan's young literary and Wall Street crowd, our latest Lost Generation. If it's not quite Tender Is the Night, neither, cold-eyed readers will recall, was Tender Is the Night...
...MADE LOVE LIKE HE WORKED ON THE street -- tender as a jackhammer." So goes one of the loonier entries in the RED SHOE DIARIES, a woman's account of her steamy affair with a construction worker who moonlights as -- no kidding -- a shoe salesman. The woman (Brigitte Bako), torn between the hunk she's secretly sleeping with and the hunk she's engaged to, has just committed suicide, and her fiance reads the journal after her funeral. That pretty much wraps up the plot of this Showtime movie, directed by soft-core wizard Zalman King (9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid...