Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enemy and denied women's "roots and life connection in the family." The movement must change its focus, she argued, from succeeding in a man's world on a man's terms to achieving a balance between this new role and woman's traditional roles as mother and tender of the hearth. To achieve that balance, urged Friedan, the structure of the workplace and the home must change. And men must be enlisted to participate...
That the camera could achieve a distinctly poetic justice would be proved a few years later by Lewis Hine, a onetime photography teacher who worked with a reformer's sense of mission and an artist's eye. Riis' pictures were raw; Hine's were frank but tender, with none of Riis' occasional nose-holding attitude toward the poor. There is no pigeonholing in Hine's 1904 portraits of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, no cliches of nationality or occupation. He knew that people who might not yet speak the language of their new home could still state themselves plainly...
Killer actress, please. We speak of Ellen Barkin, 35, who does more than curl men's toes. In her first film, Diner (1982), she played the young married whose husband rags her because she can't catalog his precious 45s. In Tender Mercies she was Robert Duvall's teen daughter. She righteously battled Dr. Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and taught her sweet niece how to dance in Desert Bloom. Just now she is bookending her role in Sea with a turn as the triple-crossing ultrabitch in Walter Hill's Johnny Handsome. Tough? This babe can blast...
Hartford retaliated with a Victor Hernani dribbler past Crimson goal-tender Scott Salisbury 17:01 into the second half...
...terse statement allowed Time to proceed with its friendly acquisition of Warner. Within three hours of the decision, Time carried out its tender offer to pay $70 a share for 100 million of the more than 180 million Warner shares outstanding. Along with 17 million Warner shares that Time acquired in a stock swap in June, the tender gave Time a 58% controlling interest in its merger partner. As a result of the deal, Time changed its name to Time Warner; the company will buy the remaining Warner shares for a combination of cash and securities under terms that...