— gleeful and affectionate one day, black with disgust the next.
Mr. Minott let loose gravelly shouts in "Blue Monday," New Order's bitter estrangement song; Lou Reed's affectionate "Perfect Day" became a melancholy ballad with a whistled countermelody, and Mr. Richards translated the lead guitar solo of Steely Dan's "Do It Again" into a jittery Jamaican banjo excursion.
Inevitably, the first show came across as an affectionate tribute to the old days – hence the inclusion of a Janet and John story – but with a new format, tone and emphasis.
His most popular vehicle during this period was My Favorite Year (1982), an affectionate satire on the early days of television, in which O'Toole played Alan Swann, a faded Errol Flynn-type swashbuckling screen star with a penchant for tippling and troublemaking.
An affectionate homage to the early days of cinema, this wonderful near-silent black-and-white beauty about a matinee idol threatened by the arrival of sound tips its cine-literate hat towards everything from the swashbuckling romps of Douglas Fairbanks to the pathos of Chaplin and the slapstick of Keaton.
"The Eighties" takes a wistful, affectionate look back at the early days of Mikhail Gorbachev, when change was in the air but not yet on the streets.
"Lost" is an affectionate look at the bad old days with the same aesthetic point: namely, that ordinary gestures (folding arms, holding a hand to hip) are not abstract and are never robbed of a narrative tinge.
Even on the first day, vendors had acquired affectionate tags: Lavender Lady, Jam Lady, Cheese Man.
His praise of the glory days of the bar is affectionate.
(Rachel Saltz) 'Koch' (No rating, 1 34) Neil Barsky's portrait of Edward I. Koch, the three-term New York mayor (who died on Feb. 1, the day the movie opened), is affectionate but not uncritical.
