Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The extremely competent Gerald Green is anything but cautious in Faking It, or The Wrong Hungarian, a romp paprikash that spoofs the big league literary life with endless verve and infectious silliness. Its hero-narrator, Ben Bloodworth, author of sentimental Jewish novels not unlike the high-grade schmalz Green himself...
Boudreau turns positively sentimental when he talks about the beauty of the land. "What a wonderful world we would have if we could see beauty all the time." Sentimental or not, he personally ensures that every community he visits cleans up its riverfront. In that, he may or may not...
The film strikes a sometimes successful, sometimes tenuous balance between suspenseful diversion and romantic melodrama. Klute's character is never adequately probed, and there is an uncomfortable number of genre cliches, including a hoked-up terror-in-the-last-reel episode that lacks both terror and surprise. Worse, the...
No one wrote fancier uptown R. and B. than a young Jewish girl from Brooklyn named Carole King. Fast approaching 20, she and her first husband, a lyricist named Gerry Goffin, caught on early with songs like the Shirelles' Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1961) and the Drifters'...
On the homeward leg of Rogers' hectic tour, TIME Correspondent, Herman Nickel, who accompanied the Secretary of State, concluded that the trip had accomplished much. U.S. spokesmen felt that they had persuaded both sides that it was essential to keep talking peace to achieve peace. Cabled Nickel: "Rogers succeeded in...