Word: sentimentale
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American musical theater wants to be entertaining. It really does want to make that final step from schlock to pure, uninterrupted musical and theatrical pleasure. For two hours musical theater would like to belt out ribald verse, prance around expressionistic props and execute marginally representational dance numbers, all for the...
In the remainder of the album, Upshaw reveals that she is equally at home in less sentimental moods, skillfully handling, for example, the cynical extravagance of Bernstein's Glitter and Be Gay (from Candide). Only in I Feel Pretty, from West Side Story, does she seem outside the song, pushing...
They were all presents from my mother. I was panicked. I spent the time before falling asleep and the hypnogogic state before waking retracing where I had been in the days before my things disappeared. Not only were they all terribly expensive, but I had a sentimental attachment to them...
This is wisdom not vouchsafed to the creators of Angels in the Outfield, a remake of a dryer, less hungrily sentimental 1952 movie of the same title. A moment before he is abandoned, young Roger asks his father when they might become a family again. "When the Angels win the...
From a film industry that softens virtually any contentious social issue -- aids, the Holocaust, Vietnam -- into a fable with a happy ending, Forrest is the ultimate sentimental figure. He embodies that noble Hollywood precept, the spiritual superiority of the handicapped. Forrest is not the ranter on the subway or the...