Word: sentimentale
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THE BEST REMAINING SEATS, by Ben Hall (266 pp.; Potter; $12.50), recalls the vanishing glories of the movie palaces of the 1920s and '30s. If you did not like the movie, you could soak up culture in the lobby looking at the statues. You could buy popcorn under a...
Kurosawa's Shakespeare inevitably-and fortunately-involves more Kurosawa than Shakespeare. With blunt and vital irreverence the director has translated Shakespeare's words into Japanese images, Shakespeare's lords into Japanese barons. Even in Shakespeare's plot, Kurosawa has condensed detail, juggled scenes, chucked the sentimental...
What seemed most troubling all evening was the sameness of it all. Any melody had a hard time expressing a specific feeling of its own; rather it would drift into a nostalgic sitting-round-the-fire sort of mood which could be poignant but little else. This sentimental cliche seemed...
There can be no comprehensive conclusion to a conglomerate romance; the possibilities are too various. In fact, none of the stories discussed ends happily: "Sentimental Education ends with resignation, and "Winter Term" ends with violence.
The greatest champion of American thoroughbreds died in 1947 and was buried beneath the bluegrass of Kentucky's Faraway Farm. But the truth is that Man o' War never really died. So firmly rooted is his legend that his portrait still hangs in a place of honor in...