Word: sentimentale
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If For the Beauty of Wynona has a unifying theme, it's a kind of blind-alley search for love in a world that changes before it can barely be experienced. Still Learning How to Crawl takes this theme of sentimental education and extends it past the age of anxiety...
The first big mistake was failing to settle on a place and time. The front , curtain's stylized glimpse of Manhattan evokes the '40s-ish nostalgia of Guys and Dolls, while the main set, a dark framework strewn with irregular cutout boxes of vivid color, recalls the '60s -- and, more...
Every season, it seems, brings some new sentimental comedy about terminal illness, usually involving some old curmudgeon's coming to rosy terms with the imperfections of the world he is about to leave. These plays, whose "reality" is rooted not in life but in prior plays, movies and TV, shy...
Bush was initially distrustful of Gorbachev and critical of Ronald Reagan's "sentimental" attachment to him, but ended up by clinging irrationally to Gorbachev to the exclusion of his rival, Boris Yeltsin, whom he dismissed as an unruly boor. From the authors' account, Bush got no help at all from...
Roots had melodramatic excesses too, but they were transcended by the sweep and emotional resonance of the family saga. And the TV landscape has changed a lot. While the fictional mini-series seems stuck in a creative dead end, nonfiction is flourishing. From finely crafted American Experience documentaries to the...