Word: maudlinly
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...appeared in The New Yorker, display this ability even better than his controversial crazy-quilt novel, Snow White (TIME, May 26, 1967). In The Indian Uprising, Comanches attack a city whose streets are named Boulevard Mark Clark, Rue Chester Nimitz and George C. Marshall Allee. The narrator is a maudlin drunk who utters battle bulletins and sophisticated banalities with equal apathy. The effect is similar to the sense of unreality created by television when newsreels of carnage run smoothly into advertisements for the good life...
Strawberry Ice Cream. There is such a thing as too much pot, and such a thing as getting "stoned" on it. Stoned on alcohol, the ordinary social drunk can become maudlin, irrational, incoherent and perhaps physically ill. A smoker who has had too much pot, says the San Franciscan, tends to become "quite anxious, overly self-conscious and very ill at ease. These are usually intensely personal discomforts that are hard to articulate, but they are usually short-lived-say, two hours long at the most. I have had very moving illusory experiences under pot too. These aren...
...image of America more than if we passed a 'Ghetto Tax,'" he suggests. On second thought, he sees the impracticality of his proposal--"but what a wonderful commitment of national purpose." If you bring up America or the Globe in conversation, you are touching his soft spot. He waxes maudlin and concludes, "I know that sounds corny," more to emphasize that he takes his words seriously than to excuse himself...
...echo in Kendall's life when her own lover steals a car for their vacation and gets sent down for six months. "I'd much rather have taken the bus," she pleads, lending dignity to a line that, spoken by another actress, might have seemed only maudlin...
...argue with the power and variety of Bernstein's interpretations, but his gifts are most appropriate to the later symphonies, from the Fifth on, with their careening metaphysics, thorny textures and dramatic contradictions. Bernstein explains that Mahler is "roughhewn and epicene, subtle and blatant, refined, raw, objective, maudlin, brash, shy, grandiose, self-annihilating, confident, insecure." Each symphony is also being released separately, and the Eighth, in particular, is not to be missed, as Bernstein masses his musical forces, in this case, the London Symphony Orchestra, for an impassioned yes to the whole cosmos...