Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auditoriums. The seats--between 1,815 and 2,000 in the larger, depending on the configuration of the stage--are a warm shade called terra cotta, and a blue patterned carpet covers most of the floors. Given the prevailing climate in Minnesota during the concert season, the cozy warmth conveyed by the materials is not misplaced...
Arnold's own personal rush comes from the warmth of his customers. They need him desperately, after all, and when they hear his plane they are out on their makeshift runways, pulling sleds, flashing blinding smiles. On this route the mailman is always invited inside. A couple who wish to be known only as Newt and Sharon baked him a cherry pie on this particular visit. Sharon makes her pastries with bear fat. They talked of the six otters they had seen outside in the Salmon River that morning. Newt tore through his mail, furiously writing checks as he went...
...mother a traditionalist who believes the only good music is God's music. This becomingly naive plot--a black Jazz Singer or a prequel to Dreamgirls--is sturdy enough to support a dozen or so knockout gospel singers, with a spirit that cradles the audience in its communal warmth. Steve Williams leads the Reach Ensemble with dervish vitality; Terry Myrick and Gaillou emerge from that choir to perform prodigies of soul stirring; and Octavia Lambertis (who alternates in the lead role with Desiree Coleman) leapfrogs octaves as she sings gospel or R & B with angelic possession...
...professor at the California Institute of Technology, where he is regarded as that rarity, an eminent theorist who is a first-rate teacher. He is also a mixed-media event, featured on a novelty poster dressed as a mock mystic and appearing on public television. His directness, warmth and spontaneity are not lost in print...
...With a despairing love affair, a troubled youth and an anguished widow kindle a circle of warmth against the encircling chill of Northern Ireland's mad terrors. Director Pat O'Connor turns their tragedy into a strangled cry from the heart...