Word: sentimentale
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SINCE HIS ARRIVAL ON THE POST-punk scene 17 years ago, Elvis Costello has shown himself to be one of the most prolific and protean songwriters of his generation. Known for lean, melodious three-minute songs with scathing lyrics about sexual guilt and revenge, he reigned for more than a...
America's lifting the embargo on Vietnam has people in both countries talking about reconciliation, even friendship. Let us be clear. Vietnam wants the U.S. in the region as a counterweight to China. The profit motive drives America's wish for relations with Vietnam. Anyone susceptible to the sentimental image...
But despite such fanciful touches, Capra, a master of motion within the frame, never lost touch with reality, which is sadly not the case with the stylish but bloodless Hudsucker Proxy. Most important, he and Sturges, ever the sentimental wise guy, were at heart children of the light. The Coens...
The danger of The Book of Virtues is only that children will think it has a taste of medicinal worthiness. That would be too bad. It is full of stirring things the adult half-remembers and lovely oddments (Thomas A. Edison's diary in which he records that he was...
Of course, it is our generation--which didn't have sex, booze, pot or voting rights in the 1970s--that harbors the worst nostalgics of all. How odd to be sentimental about a past we didn't experience but that millions of eyewitnesses agreed wasn't worth experiencing. That says...