Word: caressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never his, "my American childhood," by tossing tantrums like a spoiled four-year-old. He will learn that the idyll of perpetual childhood is a peculiarly American dream: "Being a kid again is as good an occupation as any. In fact, it's a pretty good career!" He will caress Linda and bully her and play M-O-T-H-E-R on the living room piano. He will be anything she desires: her son, her seducer, her salvation, her fatal fantasy. Pity this child? No. Pity instead the careless mother -- what she missed, what she lost when...
...lesson, but most seem as oblivious to it as they are to the TV set that drones forlornly in the school's recreation room. Yet Wiseman is remarkably nonjudgmental; his best scenes are poignant rather than pointed. A class of blind children lie on the floor while three teachers caress them with wispy fabrics and a piano plunks out Over the Rainbow. "I want you to think about pleasant things," says a teacher soothingly, "and I want you to let the music go all inside...
...Wonderful Life as told by an angel tired of earning his wings. But it's lots else. It's a fable about the search to reconcile knowing with feeling, purity with experience. It's the story of any man shackled by the expectation of perfection and aching to caress the soft curves of domestic danger. It's also a beguiling metaphor for the dilemma of the novelist or filmmaker who, omnipotently, creates his characters and then must let them breathe, misbehave, go their own ways. Who knows what happens next? Nobody, for sure. And that is the risk held...
...Claudia Draper (Barbra Streisand), love is felonious assault, and she has the open wounds to prove it. Her mother's plaintive "I love you" may be a threat or a curse. Her stepfather's caress may have been foreplay to child abuse. Her ex-husband's ardor may have sheathed sexual brutality. Indeed, the smothering affections of all people may have driven Claudia nuts. That is why she sits edgily in a New York City courtroom, at a hearing to determine if she is competent to stand trial on a manslaughter charge. Claudia is a $500-an- hour call girl...
...world disturbed by cold war ultimatums and distracted by Camelot dazzle, Bond gave the traditional action hero modern attitudes and equipment. He brought a killer's lightning instincts to Sherlock Holmes, a suave caress to crude Mike Hammer, the microchip age to Dick Tracy's gadgets. His films were comic strips with grown-up cynicism, Hitchcock thrillers without the artistic risks. He was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes -- just right for a time when class was a matter of brand names and insouciant gestures. "My dear girl," Bond tells a new conquest, "there are some things...