Word: sentimentale
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We Americans are famous for our sentimental side. How else do you explain our weepy fascination with the Olympics, or with most of the films of Steven Spielberg? If that's not enough to convince you, don't forget this piece of incontrovertible evidence: We love greeting cards.
A.I. will beguile some viewers, perplex others. Its vision is too capacious, its narrative route too extended, the shift in tone (from suburban domestic to rural nightmare to urban archaeology) too ornery to make the film a flat-out wowser of the E.T. stripe. A.I. boasts a beautiful central performance...
I suppose some of you are so used to living in a big pond that you may take it for granted. But the sense that there are opportunities out there just waiting to be taken—the sense that you’ve got the world at your feet...
This stands, however, only as a subjective (and shortly, sentimental) judgment. The smooth columns of Widener and the short descent to the Tercentenary Theater need not universally recall the tongue-and-grooved columns at the Acropolis' entrance, a good 10 minutes' walk from level ground. Roofed Pusey's no Parthenon...
Ah well, I’m not gonna get too sentimental like those other sticky valentines. I’ve had the chance to write about music once a week, which to me is as lucky as anyone gets here on campus. (If anyone wants to offer me a column...