Word: sentimentale
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Hang the Gardens. Before moving into his new office, Furtado took a sentimental journey home, was stunned to find that the mayor of his backward home-town had spent most of the available public funds to build a hanging garden in a park. Says Furtado: "During that visit home, I...
Hokum accretes; Coop plays shady scenes with an oil-slick partner (Michael Wilding) and a blackmailer (Eric Portman). Every five minutes or so, Actress Kerr's lip trembles; Coop says, "We're going home and talk this thing through," and sure enough, they do. It is a fine...
REMBRANDT, by Gladys Schmitt (657 pp.; Random House; $5.95), is a fictional retelling of the relatively few known facts about Rembrandt van Rijn's life. Novelist Schmitt (David the King, The Gates of Aulis) scraped every document, household inventory, drawing, etching and painting for underlying drama-and added countless...
Many a U.S. citizen has mixed feelings about General of the Army Douglas Mac-Arthur. But to Filipinos, MacArthur is a hero without flaw. "I shall return," he promised in retreat before the Japanese in the first dark days of 1942; and he kept his promise when U.S. troops stormed...
(The Baker's Wife, The Well-Digger's Daughter) first told his sentimental fable of the Marseilles waterfront as a trio of plays, then as a charming film trilogy in the early 19305. Theatergoers will remember with no leap of the heart that by 1954 Fanny had become...