Word: sentimentale
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On stage, Cabaret seemed such a seemless musical web that you didn't stop to sort out the explanations it threw at you so self-confidently; its intelligence was one of style and atmosphere rather than of intellectual argument. On film, the vision is more focused, less intimidating and also...
I SUPPOSE IT had to happen eventually. Someone had to combine the making-of-a-champion motif of Downhill Racer with the sentimental mawkishness of Love Story, and set the whole thing inside Maple Leaf Gardens. The result is what you might expect.
STANLEY KUBRICK is a more lamentable and interesting case. Throughout his career, he has circumvented the show-biz celebrity that a Bogdanovich begs for. From his early experimental failures through his experimental success--2001--he has clung to his artistic ideals, making relevant and innovative films, while commanding big-studio...
"Plato's Song," a love poem by Plato which Peter put to music, succeeds in replacing the conventional and the overly sentimental with an understanding vocal and with unusual, intricate, evocative music.
The decline of ideology, the rise of pragmatism, perhaps even the globe-shrinking ability of modern communications that help people view the world more realistically, all can account in part for the wide acceptance of -or at least resignation to-the age's swift reversals of governmental policy. Yet...