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By contrast to the condescension of Pleasantville , genuine tenderness for the time could be seen in The Last Picture Show , a 1971 film about real life in 1951.
That androgynous tenderness is evident in Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch) (1875), where we can't tell if the red daubs on the men's heads are ears or flowers.
Running parallel to the story of the author's dying is that of his relationship with his wife, Ellen Schwamm Brodkey, and the mixture of deathbed wit, tenderness, and sensuality the couple share.
The notorious Chinese binding of female feet emphasized their tenderness by reducing them to living sweetmeats wrapped in silk--the lily foot was meant to slide easily into a lover's mouth.
They attribute his enduring popularity to his complex persona, which coupled upper-class urbanity with working-class gruffness and machismo with tenderness.