Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scattered threats of violence from religious protesters after the movie was denounced by the Pope and other Catholic officials, Sack, which owns most of the major theaters in the Boston area, dropped the film. Sack owner A. Alan Friedberg's decision was cowardly. Friedberg expressed compassion for the sentiment of offended Catholics, fear for the safety of audiences, and, most disturbing, a fear of anti-semitism in the wake of pressure and hostile comments from the Catholic community...
...Moby Dick for John Huston, TV adaptations of Bradbury tales, plus poems, articles and plays. By his early 20s, the son of an impoverished electrical lineman had begun to write his way out of the Depression. The familiar Bradbury style was set early: an amalgam of myth, sentiment and evocations of Poe and H.G. Wells. At 26 he was already being asked where he got all his ideas. With that kind of reader interest, he felt secure enough to marry a bookseller named Marguerite McClure. They settled in the creaky beach community of Venice, Calif. Recalls Bradbury: "If a time...
...winner of Britain's Booker Prize) take dim views of grand passion. Says the heroine of Hotel du Lac, a successful author of romances, "The facts of life are much too terrible to go into my kind of fiction." The narrator of Look at Me takes this sentiment to the extreme: "It is wiser, in every circumstance, to forget, to cultivate the art of forgetting...
...Capitol Hill and all across the U.S. last week, there were fierce outpourings of pride at a military job well done. Indeed, not since the 1983 U.S. landing on the shores of Grenada had there been any expression of patriotic sentiment quite like it. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger harked back much further than that: he invoked "the time of the Barbary pirates" in praising the Administration's action. No one put it better than Ronald Reagan. The U.S., said the President, had "sent a message to terrorists everywhere. The message: 'You can run, but you can't hide...
...Diego County supervisor had already earned a reputation as an innovative politician determined to help the community ward off urban sprawl, and as mayor he won approval for a new bay-front convention center and helped attract the 1988 Super Bowl to San Diego. So strong was the Hedgecock sentiment that last November voters awarded him a full four-year term as mayor, even though he had been indicted on conspiracy and perjury charges. His first trial ended in a hung jury last February. But last week a jury of eight women and four men pronounced the 39-year...