Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When all was said and done last night in the women's basketball team's 85-71 loss to New Hampshire at Briggs Cage, conventional wisdom regarding the Crimson's play was about as confused as the sentiment expressed in the song serving as background music for one firsthalf time-out-John Cougar's auto repair shop classic "Hurts So Good...
...kind of Democrat." At the same time, 62% say he is "dealing effectively with Congress," suggesting they have confidence in his ability to play the legislative game. Asked which congressional initiative should have the top priority this year, the largest number of those surveyed, 34%, chose health care, a sentiment that could help the President push some version of his plan through Congress. (Fifty percent favor his health plan, up from 43% in October...
...fact that the pair are working in the frozen north -- the film is set in a small Minnesota town -- that ensures that the comedy is fairly crisp. Or maybe it's that the script by Mark Steven Johnson and the direction by Donald Petrie (both young shavers) keep sentiment within reasonable bonds. Or maybe, God love them, it's that the filmmakers allow one of their leads to be something more than a dreamer, sexually speaking. It helps too that the object of his successful affections is Ann-Margret, all peaches and cream, playing a free-spirited new neighbor...
...been outrage. In St. Louis callers swamped radio talk shows demanding the death penalty and, in one case, disembowelment for the killer. At the Adam Walsh Center, a missing-children organization in West Palm Beach, Florida, calls for advice are up 50%. Its director, Nancy McBride, echoes a popular sentiment: "Don't let your children go anywhere alone. Our society is breaking down, and you can't expect kids to watch themselves anymore...
With the addition of the science comp, some reporters may not share that sentiment. Their job, they might feel, is to interest readers in the possibilities of genetics, not to find waste and scandal in the Bio Labs. They'd rather leave that to the investigative team...