Word: tenderness
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...DRINK. I concurred in the general consensus and elbowed and gouged my way up to the bar in vintage Ed King, clip-'em-on-the-sweep fashion. The bar-tender, a smallish man unaccustomed to such mass displays of joviality, informed me that Scotch and soda was going for $1.90 that night. Ed King, I realized, would run a frugal administration, having already cut back on essential social services. I settled for ginger...
...appealing performers, their characters seem too singleminded, and at times simpleminded, for comfort. Their love affair as well as their search for the car are both overtly stage-managed. But Barwood believes in his movie's every frame, and his sincerity comes across in its exhilarating pace and tender moments. Though Corvette Summer relies on hot air rather than narrative propulsion for fuel, it breezes past the finish line. -Frank Rich
...world was filled entirely with a ghost and a father who would for a long time remain "in the dusk of his grief over the loss of a wife when she was only 31. The father was short, wiry, horse-stomped, work-scarred, a ranch hand, a sheep tender, a survivor of scratch-hard mountain life who cherished the few years he and his bride had followed their flocks among the timeless hills. He faced life with a "dry half-grin" and wore for good a scar on his chin-"a single quick notch at the bottom of his face...
...Aquatic, a noisy, diesel-driven 40-ft. private sub tender chugs out of Warwick Cove into a gray Rhode Island day. Past rows of boats with names like Many-Ha-Ha's, Daddy's Girl, Lucy M and Gyp Sea. Past a dock where burlap sacks of clams are bought and sold -the seller getting 55? per lb. for littlenecks, as high as 80? for big quahogs. Past a sandbar where a tourist drowned yesterday clamming in 3 ft. of water. Past the big shingled mansions that trim the shoreline at fashionable Warwick Neck. And so into Narragansett...
...swordfish remains a tough fish to catch. The broadbill has a surprisingly soft mouth, for all his size, which makes setting a hook firmly as much a matter of luck as skill. Many a fisherman has struggled for hours with a swordfish, only to have its tender mouth give way and the line come in empty. Still, when conditions are right-a full moon and a fast, nimble boat-swordfishing can pay off. Unlike his billfish cousins, the marlin and sailfish, the swordfish is edible, and a sale at dockside can more than compensate for the expense of a night...