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Word: sentimentales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Victorian painting from both sides of the Atlantic has emerged triumphantly from post-Reginal depression. Long dismissed as sentimental kitsch, mighty canvases of noble beasts, Highland crags and soul-pierced virgins were selling for at most $1,000 in 1967; they go these days for up to $100,000. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going... Going... Gone! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

The problem of a career was solved when Barrie discovered a talent for the sentimental stories favored by Victorians. He wrote about his mother, his childhood and, most particularly, about boys. The other problem-women-was more difficult. Sketching out a character, he noted: "Perhaps the curse of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Man | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Advice for NATO-and a warning to Hua's critics back home On a dingy street in a working-class arrondissement of Paris, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mayor Jacques Chirac and China's Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng) climbed to the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: From Peking to Paris | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

A director schooled in the stylistic demands of black humor might have coaxed a few laughs from the material. Director Norman Jewison (Rollerball, F.I.S.T.) is not that man. His movie's helter-skelter tone swivels irrationally and usually heads straight for a dead end. Mad scenes, broad comic bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kangaroo Court | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

If you still want to assay the bulk of Letters--out of a sentimental attachment to Barth's brilliant earlier epic-length efforts, Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor, or out of sheer quixotic nerve--you could take the advice of Jacob Horner, formerly the protagonist of The...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Return To Sender | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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