Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BULL DURHAM. A "natural" ballplayer (Tim Robbins) is a natural disaster to his coaches in the arts of baseball (Kevin Costner) and love (Susan Sarandon). But all are fun to watch: plenty of smart talk, laughs and warm...
...Sybil has a lot of friends on the team," Scalise said. "The team really respects her. She was like one of the team members. She's very warm and charming. Hopefully, she will charm them into fast times...
Sharansky's captors, understanding that his struggle was "against the entire Soviet system," treated him abominably in a merciless nine-year effort to break him. He was confined for 403 days in freezing punishment cells, kept alive mostly on bread and warm water. He used various intellectual exercises to hold on. He solved in his head math puzzles he had read in a book by the American science writer Martin Gardner. Soaking up the water in his toilet with rags, then leaning deep into the bowl, he took lessons in Hebrew from a fellow prisoner stationed at his own bowl...
...reason for sorrow. The wonder of gardening is not what is grown but the process of growing, being able to watch things growing and dying and being reborn. Perhaps the first real pleasure, though, is simply tactile -- the sense, when one bends on one's knees on a warm spring morning, of the vast solid mass under one's hands, the thick, flat rotundity of the earth. Or perhaps the first real pleasure is a vision of possibilities. Three yellow roses might look good here; there's room for some tomatoes over there, or perhaps a row of asters. People...
Most frustrating of all to Dukakis is the sense that he has only limited leverage over Jackson. His late-night foray to Jackson's hotel was part of a mutual effort to warm up what has been a cool, correct relationship. In his speeches, Dukakis frequently butters up Jackson, making a somewhat stretched comparison between his own immigrant heritage and Jackson's rise from poverty and racial discrimination. Yet Jackson's advisers, themselves divided over strategy, continue to complain that Dukakis does not understand Jackson...