Word: sentimentales
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And a good thing too. Atlantic High will not displace Two Years Before the Mast or Moby Dick from even the most loyal conservative's bookshelf; Buckley's voyage is a piece of cake compared with those undertaken by Richard Henry Dana Jr. or Herman Melville. The storms...
The film is simply too nice. The best comedy is always shot through with a subtle streak of cruelty: laughter inevitably claims a victim. Order is always sacrificed to chaos. But My Favorite Year positively wallows in benignity. The screwball comedies of the 30s could get away with that, but...
In the old days a Walt Disney movie would have concentrated all its considerable sentimental energies on just one of the situations taken up in Tex. That would have been the forced sale (to pay the grocery and utility bills) of Rowdy, the horse much beloved by its adolescent title...
The Joe Jackson of Night and Day comes across as a more mature and accomplished musician. Some will surely belittle his new, less harsh approach as an act of compromise. Surely others will focus their attention on the shades of mainline pop amid the bells and synthesizers. For the most...
Surprisingly, only one of the 24 contributors to My Harvard, My Yale raises the burning big question that keeps bothering this aspiring alumnus: why should Harvard and Yale be singled out as worthy of printing up--and more to the point; purchasing--a collection of memoirs by their graduates? The...