Word: tendernesses
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...engineering concentrator in Quincy House who has been studying karate since the tender age of six, Rakow spent all summer training for the Shotokan Karate Federation's national collegiate competition, held the last Sunday in September in Rakow's home town of Phoenix...
...movie-of-the-week if it weren't for the overwhelming performances of Zellwegger, Hurt and Streep. Proving that her star-turn in Jerry Maguire was no fluke, Zellwegger--inhabiting a character that at times seems in danger of alienating the audience with her aloof obnoxiousness--portrays Ellen with tender and subtle intricacies once her front melts away...
...entails: decamping from sleazy apartments at night to avoid the rent, taking in a crazy cousin (Marisa Tomei) in hopes her father will support the Abramowitzes in a style to which they're unaccustomed. There's farce in Jenkins' reflections on her adolescence. But there's also a tough-tender authenticity in her film that sets it poignantly apart from most coming-of-age comedies...
...come away from Summer of Deliverance thinking that the really complicated business here was not so much James Dickey's life (he died in early 1997 at the age of 73) as his son's effort--tender, scathing, forgiving--to sort it out. Christopher Dickey begins the book, "My father was a great poet, a famous novelist, a powerful intellect, and a son of a bitch I hated...
...husband are still legally protected, unlike just about everyone else's. One reason why all the people who usually guide Clinton out of tough spots are mute this time is fear that Starr can haul them before a grand jury to repeat their advice; the other reason is more tender. No one wants to suggest in front of his wife that the President may have been less than faithful and plot a strategy accordingly...