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...describes her own growth, paying tribute to her roots and discussing the writing of her Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Color Purple. Those who first come to know Walker through this remarkable piece of fiction will be delighted by her lucid and insightful essays, which are infused with as much warmth and wisdom as her fiction, but moreover reveal a Walker that differs appreciably from the groping, just-awakening character of The Color Purple's Celie...
Maureen was the flickering flame that radiated what warmth he had in his life. She was his twin, a big handsome woman with a big freckled face, heavy underlike breasts, thick thighs, and a bottom that overflowed the edge of the chair when she had down... She was an earth girl, assiduous in bed and equally assiduous in the farmyard...
...facts, his sharpness of mind and his sardonic sense of humor. But somehow a sense of his true personality always seemed to elude them. The Soviet leader, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson remarked after a trip to Moscow in February 1983, was "extraordinarily devoid of the passion and human warmth" that he had encountered elsewhere in the country...
ALTHOUGH ORIGINALLY CAST with the late Peter Sellers in the lead, Unfaithfully Yours works largely because of Moore's tremendous comic talent. Without resorting to the clownish absurdity of a Steve Martin or the profanity punctuated anger of a Richard Pryor. Moore delivers a comic performance rich in warmth and charisma. Even at slapstick, Moore delivers, pathetically catching his foot in a wall that he kicks in. In some jokes, you just have to be there, in Unfaithfully Yours, just Dudley Moore has to be there...
KURY SENSITIVELY describes the complex needs and pleasures that draw Lena and Madeline to each other. They seem to receive a warmth missing from each of their marriages, while at the same time the bond provides the support for both women to move outside their secure, almost static, worlds. For Madeline, it is to leave her bumbling husband, while for Lena, it is to feel capable of venturing outside of her house...