Word: warmth
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Offstage, Taj exudes the same warmth he generates when he performs. When I called him up from the lobby of the Hotel Lenox last week to confirm his room number, he good-naturedly answered the phone. "Arby's Chicken Palace!" As I entered his suite, he ruffled his bedspread into place, greeted me with a grin and handshake, lit some incense, sat down in a rocking chair while toying with a soccer ball, and began to talk and sometimes ramble, his verbiage interlaced with words like "cosmos" and "vibes...
DeNiro's young Don is a precise, elegant understatement, a portrait of a peasant aristocrat in an ill-fitting suit. His movements are sure, deliberate, catlike, his eyes icy; he is most frightening in a single, beautiful smile that seems the last flicker of human warmth in a young man resolved to become a killer...
Nick Minard '76 died on Tuesday. He left his friends with unreturned books and memories of kindness, generosity and humanity. For those of us who knew him, the warmth of others takes on new meaning--an importance, a fullness, a real value and at the same time, a knowledge of the precariousness of friendship that makes it all the more valuable...
There were very few dissenters. In 1962 TIME called him "the greatest tenor singing today." His voice had almost unique evenness of tone and quality from top to bottom and was celebrated for its diamond-hard focus. At the same time it was infused with a sweetness and warmth more usually heard in singers from Naples than in tenors from Brooklyn, where Tucker came from...
...also has to do with all the things that people say about American child-rearing patterns, and parents not having any self-definition themselves in many cases. How many people really grow up in families where there is both open warmth and sexuality and also really mutual respect and equality between the parents? It's just not around, and many of the two-career families that one sees are families where the other dimension is just not apparent in the relationship between the couple. There can be something about career pressures that can kill the possibility of a complicated emotional...