Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine tough-tender Chili's delight when the demands of business and the dictates of pleasure combine in the form of a trip to Tinseltown to collect some overdue debts. His pursuit of one deadbeat provides him with a pitchable story idea, while the pursuit of another one brings him into the presence of a producer and a star who, in his naivete, he thinks may be able to help him. Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman) may be a schlockmeister down on his luck, and Karen Flores (Rene Russo) may be famous mainly for the authentic terror with which she invests...
...Vidal shades his entire story with the romantic memory of a love affair he had with a classmate at St. Albans. He suggests that blond, sunny, athletic Jimmie Trimble, who died in a foxhole in Iwo Jima, was his Rosebud, his one and only, his Platonic other half. As tender as he is about Trimble, so is he icy about the rest of his romantic attachments (he matter-of-factly states that he'd had 1,000 sexual liaisons by the time he was 25), as well as about most of his family and friends, nearly all of whom seem...
...argue with anyone who says that parties do occur, however rarely. Maybe I'm just crazy to think that a "social gathering" that must end at the tender hour of one o'clock and in which the music must be kept to a barely audible level is not really a party...
Insults fly, and each reveals damning gossip about the other's mother, uncle, best friend and so on. Lomov leaves in a rage only to be called back as soon as Natalya learns of his proposal. But before she can extract his intentions with tender caresses, they devolve to boasting over whose dog is better and end up fighting once more even as they fondle and kiss in prenuptual bliss...
Harvard's best scoring opportunity came two minutes into the second half. On a Harvard corner, B.U. goal tender Monica Dorley stopped Clark's shot and then immediately turned away two more Crimson tries...