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...town, are full of flavor and native humor. When the pallid, naive Loretta marries an Army veteran of 19 (Tommy Lee Jones) and moves with him to Washington State to raise a family, the couple's first ignorant encounters with sex and the outside world are conveyed with tender humor rather than condescension. When Loretta gets her first guitar and starts to pick and sing, the audience has no choice but to root for her. Her early successes-in local honky-tonks, on radio and at the Grand Ole Opry-are thrilling because the movie has so carefully delineated...
...unilateral decision to tender the offer upset some council members. Harberger himself says he warned Harvard officials that his appointment would cause "rumblings...
Though Trotsky has usually been regarded as a steely, unsentimental figure, the many letters to his wife Natalya reveal that he also possessed a tender side. During a brief separation from her in 1933, the 53-year-old Trotsky wrote: "What a torment it is for me not to have an old picture of yours, a picture of us together when we were young. Your image, dearest Natalya, as you were when you were young, flickers and vanishes." The aging but indomitable revolutionary added: "Obviously all these years of persecution have had a great effect on my nervous system...
Albert Einstein. The Human Side. By Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman. (Princeton, $8.95): If all secretaries wrote books the shelves would be full of apalling revelations. But Einstein's secretary--with the aid of a former colleague--has only commendable and tender words for America's most apotheosized scientist. Your Grandmother or great-uncle Larry will love...
...Dustin to draw on his own volatile, engaging personality in creating the character," says Director Robert Benton. "We tape-recorded our talks and took endless notes on his language. Everything was carefully worked out." If Kramer is brash, egocentric and often obnoxious, so too is Hoffman. If Kramer is tender, loving and often vulnerable, then Hoffman is as well. Like Diane Keaton in Annie Hall, he has turned the screen into a mirror, a magical looking glass into his own head and heart...