Word: tenderness
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...With tender words, "Oh woman, cease to suffer...
...million and a huge real estate inventory-all of which the supremely confident Bluhdorn may think he can put to better use than the supermarket chain's stodgy management. A. & P.'s bosses were aghast, and Chairman William Kane promised to oppose vigorously Bluhdorn's tender offer...
...staffers mutter about low salaries and heavy work loads but find brief reportorial stints stretching into lifelong careers at what they call "the tender trap." It has also been described as "40 freelance writers working under the same roof and (by Boston Globe Editor Tom Winship) as the best newspaper "of its size in the country." Such encomiums disturb the Yankee equanimity of Lawrence K. ("Pete") Miller, 65, owner, editor and publisher of the Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle, who attributes the paper's reputation for class to "accidents of inheritance, age, personality, location, and the like." Whatever the reasons...
...EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS. Adapted from Paul Zindel's 1971 Pulitzer-prizewinning play, this saga of a bitchy, boozy mother and the two daughters she victimizes is sentimental without really being tender, naturalistic without being real. The elder daughter (Roberta Wallach), a callipygous, gum-snapping high school cheerleader, suffers from epileptic seizures-presumably a result of life with mother. The younger, ethereal offspring (Nell Potts) escapes into the world of scientific research. She wins a prize for a school experiment concerning the supposed deleterious effects of gamma rays on sensitive marigolds: some survive...
...FRIENDS ARE GOING TO BE STRANGERS by Larry McMurtry. The elegiac, funny and tender story of a 23-year-old writer whose small-town Texas life is abruptly changed into a series of nostalgic leavetakings by sudden success...