Word: sentimentale
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Most of the actors behave with the sort of animation generally reserved for lyings-in-state, although Cloris Leachman's Mrs. Miller is skittish and well observed. Bogdanovich, a hugely eclectic director, borrows heavily here again. The use of a popular tune-Maggie, in this instance-as a sort...
Strange Cargo. One of Frank Borzage's (Seventh Heaven) presumably sentimental and presumably wonderful old pictures. Made in 1940 with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Peter Lorre.
Chautauquas were a form of adult education for farmers and tradespeople that flourished in the last half of the nineteenth century. They were a cross between the travelling tent-show and the camp-meeting. They were the country relatives of the Lyceum lectures where Whitman exhorted and praised the "common...
Beyond the Looking Glass convinces one that the original English fairy tales were not limp, sentimental daydreams. Although dominated by a sense of childish innocence, sinister, occult and perverse notions filtered into the stories through their roots in country lore. If you take this book to a quiet place, where...
RELATIONS WITH OTHER ARAB STATES. If Egypt is powerful, the Arabs will be powerful. We are proud of our land, and maybe some critics see this as Egypt first. But I feel that I cannot make myself understood in the world today without using methods that people elsewhere understand. We...