Word: sentimentale
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Using an overlapping grip, sentimental people are holding on to old golfers for dear life and good reason. No sport lets go of champions easily, but in golf the replacements have been singularly unsatisfying: too blond, too bland and too many. On the P.G.A. tour, young strangers are kept in...
When it came to squashing a grapefruit in some dame's face, no one could be more hard-boiled than Actor James Cagney. He is still pretty tough, but Cagney, 84, got misty-eyed in Washington last week, when he was one of 14 honored with the Medal of...
But Nixon's demise two years later rubbed some of the tarnish from McGovern's defeat, and McGovern's one-man-band campaign--he has little money and is the only candidate who refuses Secret Service protection--has buffed the sentimental glare to a shine.
McGovern gets sentimental support. Governor Dukakis endorses Mondale; Senator Tsongas backs Glenn.
The movie's ending is heavy on tearful cloth-rending--everyone sees Harry as a sentimental memory that will be "nice to think back to," in the words of one woman. The poignancy of the whole story rests in just that--hindsight is no clearer than the perceptions shown the...