Word: compassioner
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The Tory left has never been comfortable with Thatcher's zest for monetarism, meaning the strict regulation of a nation's money supply as the key to economic revival. It is beginning to press for more flexibility and compassion. Employment Secretary James Prior warned the conference against endorsing...
French Director Maurice Pialat sits behind his camera like a bacteriologist at his microscope, waiting patiently for his subjects to squirm to life. He does not argue or judge; he observes and classifies. In 13 years he has made but five films, each dissecting the lives of the French working...
As a dramatist, Ireland's Hugh Leonard tracks the minute hand of life. As the clock ticks, his characters fill the passing hour with the tang of Irish talk and freshets of Irish humor, with the surge of sex and the ache of love, with religious piety and tipsy...
The movie is witty and clever when the characters are witty and clever, and banal when they are banal. Some of the lines fizzle, the way lines fizzle in real life, and often these reveal the most about their speakers. Writers often go for laughs at the expense of their...
Time and again, Hopper's work insists in its characteristically modest way that these green fields have gone, or, at least, are going; that having run out of external frontiers, Americans were faced by an impassable frontier within the self, so that the man of action had been replaced...