Word: sentimentale
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Anderson then took off on what he called "a sentimental journey" to West Berlin, where in the early '50s he was married to his wife Keke while serving as a young Foreign Service officer. In Bonn, he talked with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for two hours and pleased West German...
EVERYONE HAD WEIRD NICKNAMES, and they spent their afternoons conversing in bars, the talk often sentimental and always funny. He was kind to them--maybe he realized that his life could well have been spent behind a Seven & Seven, not a typewriter. But the paunchy columnist who wrote sad humor...
Dennis Hamill infringes on quite a few of the Breslin patents--there is a fat drunk named Fabulous Murphy who pirouettes every block to prevent the victims of his latest scams from sneaking up with blunt instruments. Murphy buys drinks from a bartender named Oscar, except everyone calls him Ocar...
The women's movement, for example, has opened up studies that are not merely ideological fads (which they sometimes are), but new regions of historical perception. Ann Douglas' brilliant book, The Feminization of America, suggests that a 19th century alliance between sentimental female writers and clergymen dominated popular...
And mixed in with all the corn, of course, are a few good laughs. At one point, when the perfectually prissy and platinum (Sondra Locke) cuddles up to Bronco Billy in the back of his trailer, Eastwood gets all soft and sentimental and tells the story of his life. He...