Word: maudlin
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That New Order has a healthy maudlin streak within its self-important consciousness is displayed on the radio single "Age of Consent." While the song works musically and the few whoops and falsetto yips from Albrecht are a much-needed change from the somberness of the rest of the disk, it is lyrically awkward...
...Scarsdale's "Diet Doc" Herman Tarnower Moreover, because it follows extensive media coverage of the affair, it is disappointing that Alexander adds so little new. While the amount of journalistic detail she has amassed is impressive, her prose style often flounder and she colors her commentary with a maudlin sympathy for murderess Jean Harris, a woman who, in her words, "reminds...
...only March, but already there is a leading candidate for 1983's Six Weeks award: a brass teardrop given to the most maudlin picture of the year. But then, Table for Five perhaps has an unfair advantage. It was written by David Seltzer, who did the script for Six Weeks, and it stars Jon Voight, who loves to cry and apparently wants everyone else to join him in a grand boohoo. He plays a divorced father who takes his three children, after years of neglecting them, on a Mediterranean cruise and, en route, learns that his ex-wife...
...ability to evoke reality in all of its unpleasant truthfulness falters only when it slips into sentimentality. "Hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased, these women of Brewster Place, hands on hips, straight-backed, round-bellied, high-behinded women" have no interest or time to be maudlin. In this first novel, Naylor also demonstrates a rare mastery of the Black idiom and a delicate sense of balance in her usage. Chronology, the anathema of many a more seasoned writer, is the building block of the novel. Flashbacks, recollections and some of the finest dream sequences in contemporary fiction...
...veterans who made their way to the capital last week for the National Salute to Viet Nam Veterans, an event organized by the ex-soldiers for themselves. The gathering sometimes seemed conventional: patriotic eulogies, American Legion caps, martial music and maudlin, affectionate reunions of old platoon chums. But the convocation had an edge, a sense of catharsis, mainly because it was large and public. In the end, with a splendidly ragtag march down Constitution Avenue and the dedication of the Veterans Memorial, the spectacle seemed like the national homecoming the country had never offered...