Word: sentimentale
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The remnants that live on in TV variety shows-animal acts, jugglers, monologu-ists-are dogged reminders that vaudeville is as dead as the day before yesterday. The old troupers are legend now, larger than life in sentimental memories. But the best of them never needed such exaggeration. Carnival Buff...
But such official statements were too grand for so sentimental an occasion. One of the U.S. arrivals was so taken with emotion that he could not answer questions at customs, and soon the customs inspector was weeping too. One Lebanese mountaineer had carefully rehearsed one English phrase of greeting, boomed...
When Heimweh first appeared, a Munich disk jockey labeled it the "most horrible Schnulze [sentimental trash] of the year" and broke the record over his microphone. But the song caught on quickly, largely because many other German singers working the Wanderlust beat have never been farther from home than the...
Once upon a time (i.e., four years ago) professionally sentimental, consistently profitmaking Hollywoodsman Walt Disney built the zingiest, zowiest toy his fertile mind could imagine-and then invited others to come play with it. So far, some 16 million have taken up the offer. Last week 24,000, including Vice...
The present number of the animals is comfortably low. But the survivors are multiplying like rabbits, and their offspring are apt to be resistant to myxomatosis. Forgetting their sentimental attachment to the rabbits of child literature, platoons of Englishmen, organized in 200 government-approved rabbit-clearance societies, are now using...