Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ah, Wilderness. An uncharacteristically cheerful work by Eugene O'Neill, this is a nostalgic evocation of a normal American small-town boyhood--the king of boyhood O'Neill might have liked to have had himself. Complete with puppy love, comic uncles, and summertime pranks, the play sometimes verges on sentimental...
Let's not get gushily sentimental, fatuous, vulgar, idiotic, by advocating dressing up in colonial attire, getting sloppy guzzling old colonial grog in reconstructed 1776-style inns, rapturizing over the usual glamour figures and their myths. Even Jefferson on your cover would blush in his reluctance to be so...
THE WIND AND THE LION. A rambunctious, romantic pageant, filled with sentimental splendors, all about a brave Berber bandit (Sean Connery) and a beautiful American woman (Candice Bergen) of true grit. Writer-Director John Milius has captured both the sweep and the spirit of such classic adventure romances as Four...
By evenhanded contrast, the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh was brainy, an amateur mathematician, a superior gamesman especially addicted to cricket and golf. A.A. Milne had been an editor of Punch, a master of whimsy and light verse. The Pooh books are for grownups as well as children, and he...
It turns out that for all of his hard-talking, pulling-no-punches image, Jimmy Breslin is a bit of a sappy patriot. He gets some good, sentimental Irish teardrops in his eyes when he thinks of how the United States pulled thgough Watergate and came out stable and stronger...