Word: maudlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Visiting philosophy professor Tim Maudlin, on leave from Rutgers University, says he spent the first semester of this year living in an apartment which belonged to the philosophy department's administrative assistant, for lack of anywhere else to stay...
Until the Dick Morris story turned the press into a gaggle of schoolchildren hearing the bells of the ice cream truck, the talk of the convention concerned the maudlin tone of the convention speeches. "This isn't a convention," went a common refrain, "it's Queen for a Day." There's no doubt that this year Democrats gave us not only a balloon drop and a confetti drop but a treacle drip of steadily increasing dosage as well. I found myself cheerfully ascending to high dudgeon--until it hit me that we in the television business bear much...
...biography of one of our best-loved/least-loved entertainers, "America has had more of Jerry Lewis than it has known what to do with. Indeed, it has had more Jerry Lewises than it has known what to do with." O.K., let's see. There's Jerry Lewis the assaultively maudlin telethon host, choking up as he sings You'll Never Walk Alone to "his" kids. There's Jerry Lewis whose bitter falling out with former partner Dean Martin is probably better remembered than the duo's actual body of work. There's Jerry Lewis the director and star...
...wasted on the young. By this he means to express more than a wistful regret for days gone by. He is convinced that the young (specifically his grandson) have no appreciation of their singular privilege. I'm pretty sure that he has very little time for an adolescent's maudlin antics...
Page and Plant didn't play "Stairway to Heaven," but they charmed the audience with a string of classic Zeppelin hits, including "When the Levee Breaks," "Ramble On," and "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do," to which the audience sang along in maudlin harmony...