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Most critics agree with Slate 's David Edelstein that the Farrellys' "tenderness [and] joy in all things scatological, rendered outrage spurious."
Now cynicism comes to the fore, now rage, now a brief interlude of tenderness, but their opposites also are always present--for Nichols is embodying the character, not the character's characteristics.
Rolande Prevel, for example, is given almost a Matisse treatment, Colette Thomas is rendered with a delicacy that amounts to tenderness, while Jacques Prevel seems to have been sawn in two and restitched any old way, Mania Oïfer turned into an owl, Arthur Adamov fashioned from flung mud, with a penis for a nose.
They attribute his enduring popularity to his complex persona, which coupled upper-class urbanity with working-class gruffness and machismo with tenderness.
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.