Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this thrill a threat to the public weal? Since the traumas of the Kennedy assassination and Vietnam, many Americans have gradually closed off their minds to the nature of atrocity. They cope with the world's horror by numbing themselves to pain. They can shed tears over cute-tender stories of stranded whales or a baby in a well, but all too often everything else -- from a politician's promise to the Chernobyl disaster -- is so much show biz, ironized with shrugs and sick jokes. Today's children were bred in this atmosphere. With many of their parents past caring...
Connell's acting ability does the complex and exciting role justice. Loving and tender one minute, brash and forceful the next, his performance has incredible emotional range. And Connell insures that Cyrano's boisterous wit is constant through all vicissitudes. His wit infects the charmed audience which cannot help but cheer for him as he abides by his personal motto to "live as I please...
...likes of the American Civil Liberties Union, Handgun Control Inc. and my local public-television station. In the past few months, they have all been hitting me up for renewal. What's more, they have generously shared my name and address with other groups willing to gamble that a tender concern for the First Amendment or a fondness for British soap operas will tend to accompany a sympathy for elephants and dolphins or a passion to deny a raise to members of Congress...
Fowler is dazed and perhaps injured (he has cut his head somehow), and his accent is funny. When he pulls out a couple of Federal Reserve notes to pay for his ticket, his money looks dodgy. Is such stuff legal tender in San Francisco? Doubtful. But the friendly "base ballists," as they call themselves, accept him without a lot of awkward questions and give him a berth to sleep in. When he wakes up, he stays on the train, not knowing what else to do. He learns that they are headed for New York, where the Red Stockings plan...
...swell guy. He has an easy rapport with his two sons that their tense mom (Jessica Lange) can't match. If he has a flaw, it's that he dies 15 minutes into a movie that is as tender and strained as his newly widowed wife. Men Don't Leave, written by Barbara Benedek and director Paul Brickman, gets promising when Lange lurches toward psychotic withdrawal from this grave new world, even as her kids accommodate themselves to it quickly. But a TV-movie moral awaits at the end, as comforting and predictable as a public-service commercial...