Word: sentimentale
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For Americans, the moment was powerfully emblematic. Why were they cheering? What were they cheering? When television news played scenes of the torch's progress across the landscape, something in the soul of the audience cheered as well. A kind of emotional reflex. Something both sentimental and profound welled up...
DIED. Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, playwright and maestro of the still active dialect theater of Naples, whose boisterous, sentimental tragicomedies, including Millionaire Naples (1945), Filumena Marturano (1946) and Inner Voices (1948), celebrated the earthy Neapolitan zest for life; of kidney failure; in Rome. Two of his screenplays...
Like its subject, the public high school, Teachers is undone by its aspiration to be all things to all members of its constituency. Sometimes it is a sardonic assault on institutional idiocy, something Director Arthur Hiller once managed pretty well in The Hospital. Sometimes it is a sentimental plea for...
After finishing this sentimental journey in prose, an apparently mellowed Naipaul went to the Ivory Coast. At the beginning of the second narrative, he explains his chosen itinerary: "I wanted to be in West Africa, where I had never been; I wanted to be in a former French territory in...
In all the years since, despite every accommodation that rule changers have made to the offenses, only in attempts has Brown been passed. Going on 13 seasons, Franco Harris has logged 549 more carries, and Walter Payton has counted 370 more in his tenth year. Both are breathing heavily on...