Word: sentimentales
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DIED. Walter Slezak, 80, convivial Austrian-born character of stage and screen who specialized in plump, dastardly villains, but also played sentimental men-about-Europe, most notably the Marseille shopkeeper in Broadway's Fanny (1954), for which he won a Tony Award; by his own hand (he shot himself...
At 77, Willie Mae Ford Smith is a round, sweet-faced woman with a shrewd yet sentimental eye, a determined spirit and a powerfully moving voice, now somewhat cracked by long, if lively service to the Lord. She is a beloved gospel singer, much looked to for moral and artistic...
But perhaps this is nothing new. For years the Academy has been usurping America's anti-intellectual favorites. A typical Oscar-watcher could break down "predictions" into three categories: the popular favorite (i.e., E.T. and Tootsie), the intellectual favorite (i.e., Gandhi) and, in some cases, the sentimental favorite (i.e., Paul...
Hicks and Miller were "the sentimental favorites," Jewett said.
It's spring again. And look what the Easter bunny has brought all the way from France: Daddy's illegitimate son. Product of a mad moment a decade ago, little Jean-Claude arrives wearing a heavy coat of wistfulness atop his natural Gallic charm. His mother, you see...