Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your fears." Says Des'ree: "I've always tried to turn negative situations around." The more experimental Portishead, on the other hand, wallows in negativity: nearly every song on the band's gloomily ethereal debut CD, Dummy, deals with guilt or fear, or both. On one track, the tentative, tender It Could Be Sweet, Portishead vocalist Beth Gibbons sings, "I ain't guilty of the crimes you accuse me of/ But I'm guilty of fear...
...scottish hero who defended Scottish independence in the face of English despotism. But when we first meet him, he's just a cute little boy in pigtails. His father is killed in an uprising against England. At his father's funeral, one precocious little girl is already giving him tender looks, setting the stage for the romance to come. William is taken away by his uncle, who emphasizes education before fighting skills, but that only puts off the inevitable. Predictably, William returns to his home years later and is struck to his home grown-up charm of lively Murron (Catherine...
...appalled," thundered candidate Bill Clinton when he learned that George Bush would return all Haitian boat people, including political refugees fleeing for their lives, to the tender mercies of Haiti's military junta. "It is a blow to America's moral authority in defending the rights of refugees around the world." Last week President Clinton announced that he would extend the Bush approach to refugees from Cuba. It was the first time the U.S. has ever endorsed the forcible return of refugees to a communist country...
...Sleeping has. But its most attractive quality is its ease. The script by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fred Lebow wears its wit casually, and the director, Jon Turteltaub, is serenely confident of it, his actors and his audience. He lets scenes develop and characters--especially Bullock's alert and tender Lucy--emerge at their own unforced pace. How nice it is to come out of a mainstream American movie feeling that you've been treated as an adult. And how rare...
...tender age of 16, I flew out to Vancouver, British Columbia to work in a chemistry lab for the summer. But I did not immediately realize that a paid job in Canada was not all that my dual Canadian-American citizenship could secure. Soon I was introduced to an entirely new sphere of alcohol consumption...