Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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He comes across as an extraordinarily genuine personality. Unlike the barrage of middle class suburban kids who took up guitar in the early '60s and then wrote sentimental lyrics about people they had never seen. Pete Seeger was really there. In the '30s and '40s he had travelled all across...
The Great Gatsby. Maligned and deservedly. Movies progress, but they don't necessarily get any better, and Gatsby is pretty good proof. When it gets sentimental, it doesn't do it a quarter as well as Wuthering Heights and when it talks about America, it misses the boat altogether. If...
Synthetic Desperation. Schlesinger and Screenwriter Waldo Salt collaborated previously on Midnight Cowboy, and The Day of the Locust has much the same mood of sentimental surrealism. Both films treat rather bizarre subjects in a comfortably slick fashion, so that nothing becomes very real or threatening. All decadence is decorative, all...
Unlike most songs in the protest genie the tone in "Lonesome Death" is not sentimental or heavy handed Dylan uses sarcasm and irony, but without indulging in polemics. His only direct comment on the crime is childlike in its perception of injustice. And she never done nothing to William Zanzinger...
WHEN WILLIAM POWELL. Boston brahmin dropout from the purposeless life of the idle rich reveals at the end of La Cava's My Man Godtrey that his idea of how to cure Depression America's woes is to build nightclubs staffed by the unemployed, the letdown we feel is the...