Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LONDON: There are few precedents for what is happening today. It isn't a state funeral, since Diana wasn't officially Royal at the end of her life. She lost the title H.R.H. along with her marriage. But somehow the nationwide outpouring of sentiment has made this somber event more than the usual pomp and circumstance. The Union Jack is flying half-mast at Buckingham Palace for the first time in the history of the monarchy ? a triumph of public pressure over traditional protocol. Neither President Clinton nor President Chirac are attending, but that doesn't matter to the estimated...
...Patsy Ramsey. None of these leads are yet strong enough to hand over to the Boulder authorities, Haddon said. But he insisted that the investigation is not a hedge against possible criminal indictments. "The Ramseys won't have any peace until it's solved," he said. With that sentiment, at least, nearly everyone can agree...
When the jury was asked if "anyone had a problem with [the plaintiff's] being from around Rochester, N.Y.," he milked anti-Yankee sentiment by raising his hand...
...birthday present each year, little Nagiko's father would write a sensuous sentiment, in elegant Japanese calligraphy, on the child's face. Twenty years later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. Finally, she will be not the paper but the pen--an artist writing love notes in the medium of flesh...
...fever of frustrated love, and surround Cheung with cold grays to reflect the ice of his resentment. As the slick gigolo and avenging angel of the Pang family, Cheung radiates the intensity of a lover scorned and scarred for life. In a performance that dares to avoid sentiment and sympathy, Cheung is the anchor for this mesmerizing essay in love and betrayal...