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Word: affectionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bent may be regarded as pro-gay in that it displays no social or moral qualms about anyone's being gay. But Playwright Sherman is not proselytizing. He wants to show us the brute cost of survival, the deep need and sustaining force of human affection in dire adversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Walpurgisnacht | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Moon, who could also be wonderfully benign and sweet-tempered, a sort of rock-'n'-roll Shakespearean fool, commanded perhaps the greatest affection from the audience. He was also dosing himself for disaster, and he began to undermine the group. During an American tour in 1975, he failed to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Both players have displayed an unfortunate affection for the floor boards. "I don't know how to make tall people jump," Kleinfelder mourned during the hoopsters' five-game losing streak.

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Women Hoopsters: A Team on the Rebound | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne's biggest hero is her predecessor, the late Richard J. Daley, who launched her political career. But affection for the father does not carry over to the son. State Senator Richard M. Daley, who is currently Byrne's biggest enemy. The sulfurous feud threatens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Calamity Jane Strikes Again | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

The Duke of Deception. Memories of My Father. By Geoffrey Wolff. (Random House, $12.95): His Pa is no Father Christmas. Wolff's father, Duke, is a con artist, a chronic debtor, a wanderer with illusions of grandeur, and an irresponsible parent to boot. A man only a son could love...

Author: By Compiled BY Sue faludi, | Title: Season's Readings | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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