Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cast a creation like Midler -- you package her. Or allow her to package herself, as she has in For the Boys, which her company produced. Not surprisingly, Boys comes out a lot like one of her songs, a slightly dislocating blend of warmth and knowingness...
Even after WLT is making big money, owner Ray Soderberg is worried about radio's insubstantiality, which seems to him "like running a hotel with no rooms, just a lobby." He broods about the false bonhomie of fathead announcers, the fake warmth of radio stars laying on the charm to sell you hair tonic. But the big money keeps getting bigger...
...melancholic." Her true love, of course, was Spencer Tracy. "He didn't like this or that. I changed this and that . . . Food -- we ate what he liked. We did what he liked. We lived a life which he liked. This gave me great pleasure." With the same warmth that marks her film acting, she plays a final love scene that is more intimate than any revelation of sexual secrets. As if this were their last movie together, she re-enacts the night of his death...
...professor Jay R. Feierman, who has treated 500 abusive priests over 15 years, concludes that the priesthood inevitably attracts a certain number of potential molesters because of the celibacy rule. He thinks one preventive measure would be to require priests to live in religious communities where there are personal warmth and mutual support. Psychologist Eugene Kennedy of Chicago's Loyola University says that the large number of priests suffering from sexual conflicts "constitutes a pastoral problem of the first magnitude" but that bishops by and large have refused to investigate the issue seriously. As the lawsuits and ruined lives keep...
...gulf war in February, when Bush was delivering a tough message over the phone, his interpreter accurately rendered the words into Russian but in a harsh and reproving tone. Afterward Gorbachev asked an English-speaking aide who was listening in whether he was correct in detecting that Bush's "warmth" had got lost in translation. "Yes," the aide assured him. "It was friendlier in the original." Gorbachev was much relieved...