Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...push Powell aside so she could step up to a question--a gesture so swift and subtle few in the audience noticed it, but one that summed up the marital dynamic behind the general's decision. The look on Powell's face said he was used to such tender assertions. Soon after, Alma did it again: she put a gentle hand on her husband's lower back, reminding him to Keep It Short. The press conference was a smashing success, she seemed to say, but it was time to head home...
...call it a positive game because of the outcome, but I can't call it negative either," sophomore goal-tender Edward Chen said. "We were way down, and we came back. It was an unlucky loss...
...experience together--an airplane crash, say--often seek each other out. And who's more traumatized these days than MARCIA CLARK and CHRIS DARDEN? The two were seen together in San Francisco, shopping, dining, reportedly even dancing. But the Los Angeles D.A.'s office, unaccustomed to handling inquiries so tender in nature, nixes the idea of romance. "They have to use their vacation time," says a spokeswoman. "And who better understands what they're going through than each other...
...been up--once by common teeny-bopper consent the sexiest dude on the planet--and he's been down--recently by common show-biz consent a marginal player, working in hopeless enterprises like Moment to Moment and Perfect, not to mention projects headed straight to video (The Tender)--and really doesn't see much difference between the two. Even when he had a hit like Look Who's Talking, it was an object of contempt in all the better circles. And along the way, he managed to turn down eventual winners like Arthur, Splash and An Officer and a Gentleman...
What works best in this new version of Company, as Robert wanders among his married friends examining one marriage after another, is the tender moments. Veanne Cox is delightful as a bride balking at the church door. With wildly wobbling knees but a dizzyingly sure tongue, she rattles off an ever accelerating catalog of reasons why she shouldn't walk down the aisle. And Robert Westenberg, contemplating Robert's inquiry, "You ever sorry you got married?" offers a splendid version of that bittersweet hymn to ambivalence Sorry--Grateful. Westenberg vindicates the suspicion of those who (overlooking the cheesy arrangement...