Word: maudlinity
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...Gilmore Girls. (Two other F.F.P.F.-funded series will debut later in the season.) And both are gooier than a Krispy Kreme. Rules casts John Ritter as a suburban dad with two teen daughters (a hot one and a plain one), whose problems he solves in the pilot in two maudlin scenes. In one the plain daughter asks him, "Do you think I'm pretty?" and in the other he watches the hot one get thrown over by a guy and has a vision of her as a scared, lost toddler. As in the original, Family Affair has wealthy Manhattan bachelor...
...public schools are still suffering from inattention, and too many of our citizens are still abandoned to the streets, sub-par nursing facilities or mental institutions. In Los Angeles, television executives are doing their best to capitalize on the country's sudden, collective clamor for nostalgia, pumping out maudlin new series (like NBC's "American Dreams"). And in New York, the mercenary battles rage on over the distribution of cash raised during 9/11 benefits...
Ever since my first Harvard spring, when I was still a bashful, beardless freshman, I’ve cultivated a passionate dislike for the maudlin, overwrought essays that senior Crimson columnists tend to pen as graduation nears...
...second piano trio. After this outburst of energy, Pressler then returned listeners “back to heaven” with the slow movement of Beethoven’s Trio No. 11. Arguing for Beethoven’s status as a romantic, the trio played with some of the maudlin expressivity that the previous performances had lacked. If the applause were any indication, this self-referential in-joke was not lost on the audience...
Science Fictions switches from textbook to maudlin TV movie as Crewdson relates cases of innocent hemophiliacs given tainted transfusions, birthing mothers who received bad blood and otherwise healthy people whose infections could have been prevented if Gallo had acknowledged his error...