Word: sentimentales
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O.K., but great art is born all the time out of what is loud, vivid and swaggering, or even conventional and sentimental--in short, out of the primordial ooze of low culture. Consider the modern novel. In the hands of a master like Philip Roth, it can register the smallest...
Lucinda writes from a very personal standpoint, and that can be difficult. When you go that close to the bone, you are always risking bathos--or being corny or cloying. She plays in dangerous territory, and sometimes you're not sure she's gonna pull it out. I am always...
Sometimes, you pre-write these things in your head. I knew precisely how this one was going to go. It was to be a somewhat cliched, sometimes sentimental account of my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter attending her first professional baseball game. During its better moments it would...
A.I. will beguile some viewers, perplex others. Its vision is too capacious, its narrative route too extended, the shift in tone (from suburban domestic to rural nightmare to urban archaeology) too ornery to make the film a flat-out wowser of the E.T. stripe. A.I. boasts a beautiful central performance...
If we're going to keep companies like American Greetings afloat, the industry has some serious work to do. Let's face it: Right now, people are turning to other outlets for their sentimental needs because traditional greeting cards are in a sad state. Gone are the gentle witticisms of...