Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The sophomores saw God as "a somewhat arbitrary yet sentimental old man who has a tendency to rap people's knuckles when they don't show him proper respect. . . .
Keynoter Jean Hersholt rose to announce that "We are sentimental people. . . ." But the 6,000-odd movie colonists assembled in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium gave only one sign of out-&-out sentiment during the whole evening. That was a cheery huzzah for cheery Edmund Gwenn, who won an Oscar...
To make his own distinctly Russian substitute for a "form of social order," Czar Nicholas I (called "The Nightstick") in 1826 decided to create a new thing, a secret police which later came to be called the Okhrana (Guard). The inception of this dreadful institution took place in a scene...
Juenger envisaged a new world of anonymous, depersonalized robot-men immersed in the processes of technology and disciplined into grey armies of soldier-workers. In the age of the machine, individualism seemed to him a sentimental illusion, morality a superfluous gesture. All that counted in his nightmare world was steel...
As Italian movies go, "To Live in Peace" is good but definitely not up to the pace set by "Open City" or "Shoe Shine." Aldo Fabrizzi is magnificent as the perplexed villager who doesn't know what to do with two escaped American prisoners of war, and there are some...