Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genre may be aborning--the animated feature for which no one has to go to the trouble of drawing all those millions of cels. The wondrous Babe, with its seamless blend of live footage, mechanical and visual effects and uplifting sentiment, pioneered the idea; 101 Dalmatians (which, of course, remakes one of pure animation's classics) cheerfully expands the territory; and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has always seemed more of a cartoon character than an actor anyway, may be about to Jingle All the Way to the bank with his variation...
...statement shocks, as it was no doubt meant to, but it is a metaphor for Ellroy's narrative and investigative methods. Mere sentiment deflects the truth. Love and reconciliation can come only through knowledge, however horrifying. His journey toward his mother goes beyond the personal into a world of pain and redemption...
...report reveals the attitude that characterizes the University's relationship with its junior faculty. The prevailing sentiment among the administration, this report seems to indicate, is that young professors should be so honored to have the opportunity to teach at Harvard University that no other remuneration is deemed necessary...
...that sentiment that did the most to save the G.O.P. from what otherwise might have been a congressional loss as humiliating as Dole's trouncing by Clinton. To an extraordinary extent, both parties fought the campaigns for House seats as a referendum on national policy; former House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local" has rarely been so widely flouted. Democrats pleaded with voters to repudiate the so-called revolution of O'Neill's successor twice removed, Newt Gingrich, whom they pictured as avid to gut all programs of government help to the poor and middle...
Professors, however, say there is no overriding political sentiment in the department. They say there are no radical leftists and only a few extreme conservatives, with the bulk falling slightly to the left of the political spectrum...