Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent outpourings from Germaine Greer [BEHAVIOR, April 16] and the canned wisdom of Phyllis Schlafly. What perplexes me is why a woman like Greer, who has experienced almost everything but maternity, salutes her sisters with respect, and Schlafly, the mother of six children, pats us on the head with tender-loving superiority...
...Carll see any glimmers of hope or despair? The reader never finds out much about this man, because Brown does not take the trouble to give him a fully drawn character. As things are, what we are given by this gifted author, who wrote the much praised 1978 novel Tender Mercies, is chiefly a very long list of Jessie's considerable troubles. These include a large flood, which serves the useful purpose of bringing the story to a close. You may be sure that Jessie handles it womanfully, and that Carll shows up when it is over, wringing...
...Jack Nicholson was chosen best supporting actor for playing Aurora's lecherous astronaut lover. The other major awards at the seemingly endless (a record 3 hr. 46 min.) ceremony went to favorites: Robert Duvall won the best actor Oscar for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Tender Mercies; Linda Hunt received the best supporting actress award for playing a male dwarf in The Year of Living Dangerously; and Fanny and Alexander, the last major feature Ingmar Bergman has said he will ever direct, took the prize for best foreign picture...
...Really, sir, do you think the College should be made over in your image? If you despise the flute, should no one study it? Would you deprive the military of the small leavening that its complement of Harvard-educated officers provides, and leave us to the tender mercies of an officer corps wholly derived from West Point. Annapolis, and Colorado Springs?... Thomas Lumbard...
Grab a vine, give a yell and prepare to take a leap of faith: they have gone and made an utterly serious Tarzan movie and, believe it or not, it is rather good. Indeed, much of Greystoke is very good, a tender, thoughtful and pictorially beautiful working out of the themes that were implicit in Edgar Rice Burroughs' original conception, but which over 70 years of life in the Hollywood jungle have been choked off by the riotous, unchecked growth of weedy invention and seedy, B-picture convention...