Word: sentimentale
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The movie is sentimental, without apology, but hard-edged too. The sight of Peachy's booty sliding down a mountainside recalls the gold dust in Sierra Madre blowing away in the Mexican wind. Huston includes many of the visual asides and unguarded gestures - like a village chieftain preparing for...
George McGovern ran on a more or less populist platform in 1972 and was soundly trounced. Burned once, Democrats are wary of playing with this kind of political fire again. Among many liberals, Harris is the sentimental favorite. He speaks their language forcefully and eloquently. But after they cheer and...
Our Town, despite daredevil risks with the sentimental and the obvious, was his masterpiece. Wilder's death is enough of a loss to produce at least one small question. Who will play the Stage Manager at Grover's Corners, improvising muted trumpet solos over the graves of literature...
Driving to Rochester. Flying down Interstate 90, which goes through upstate New York, a snip of Pennsylvania near Erie, Cleveland and Ohio, Indiana to Gary, where it runs next to the U.S. Steel Works, on past Chicago, veering north-west to the enclave of Madison, Wisconsin, crossing the Mississippi near...
Actors' Showcase. Age has not refined Sweet Bird's effulgent bathos. The reduction of personality to sex organs is the dynamic of skin flicks and soap op era. Sad to say, Williams wrote this Petit Guignol sideshow in the late '50s, soon after completing his masterpiece, Cat...