Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gornick's own politics are clearly to the left of center. She wants to believe that men and women will continue to struggle to overcome the "warring elements of the race to humanize itself." She turns to passion and hope as a means to this end. The Romance of American...
If any more proof be needed, then the scene on the bench facing the Verrazano Bridge is the clincher. Travolta speaks of the building of the bridge, all its specifications and statistics, like a man surveying an escape route from Brooklyn he is not sure he can ever take. His...
This sentimental film biography of pioneer Rock Disc Jockey Alan Freed is the work of slobs, but there's no use pretending that it isn't fun. In its own bumbling way, American Hot Wax rekindles the cataclysmic spirit of the rock-'n'-roll revolution of...
Much of the abiding charm of the evening rests in two sentimental yet spirited courtships. Doing a bike repair job for Daisy (Virginia Vestoff), Frank falls in love with her. Daisy is a teacher who poignantly wonders how the quiet lessons of the classroom can ever erase from little children...
Sally and Luke's romance is the heart of Coming Home. Though the illicit affair of a beautiful woman and a cripple is potentially mawkish stuff, Ashby usually does not allow his story to become overly sentimental. He does not view the couple's relationship as a panacea...