Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need the money" and "I thought it would look good on my resume" are not answers that would impress most interviewers. It seemed that most were looking for applicants who had dreamed of working in such places as publishing houses, consulting firms or retail stores from a tender age--or, at the very least, who could play the part convincingly in an interview. I, however, am not much of an actress...
...central characters, Sugiyama and Mai, who lend the movie its grace, subtlety and essential dignity. Her aloofness and his reticence makes their first real moment of communion surprisingly affecting, despite the too-pat neatness of its timing. There's a tender believability to their relationship that is far more convincing than a conventional romance would have been. It helps smooth over the unavoidable awkwardness of how to treat the wife, who begins by evoking sympathy and ends up offering it--not without a hitch. Sugiyama can't escape his loneliness without transferring some of it to her; one hopes...
...that quiet world she cultivated disappeared in the crush of celebration. The occasion fueled the sort of media blitz--from Le Monde to the Frankfurter Allgemeine to Town & Country--that she experienced again and again in a career that was launched in scandal when she appeared as the tender (and fully exposed) model in the photographs of her lover and later husband Alfred Stieglitz. She advanced that early fame on the sheer power of her painting, her personality and, increasingly, her role as an icon of feminist strength. With the inauguration of the new building, O'Keeffe joins a small...
...billion) and Sprint ($14.1 billion) are huge, well-capitalized companies, they can't duplicate the $100 billion infrastructure of switches, wires and poles that serves local neighborhoods. Deregulation allows them to ride the incumbent's system, but here's where the static begins: they must rely on the tender mercies of the Bells and GTE to put them into customers' homes. That gives AT&T's enemies every incentive to drag their feet, first by challenging the terms of agreements to carry AT&T local traffic and then by taking their sweet time to switch over customers who request...
First, the AMERICAN STATES would agree to tender no challenge to the United Kingdom's title as PRE-EMINENT ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD POWER for at least 150 years...