Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LIVING UP to the talent of a writer like Nabokov takes some care and precision. But if this excerpt from Albee's program note is any clue, his intellect is muddied with sentiment when it comes to his predecessor: "The play of Lolita is both Nabokov and Albee...But, that being as it may...the entire work is Nabokov; it is my valentine to the great man, he who suffered fools so badly and who, so clearly, loved us all, even the Humbert Humberts and the Lolitas of this world...
...different. Ronald Reagan and a conservative Senate swept in on the tide of his anti-inflation platform, denouncing the increased deficit spending, congested policy making and great waste of the Carter administration, just as Carter rode four years ago on the tide of Watergate and anti-big-business sentiment directed against the Republicans in office...
...haughty heiress named Melinda, played in an impish comic vein by Laura Esterman. Bumpkins, worldlings, gulls and wits populate the evening. Toward the end of the play, it becomes evident that Plume is not a womanizing gourmand, as he pretends to the world, but a moonstruck child of sentiment who has found in the chaste but frolicsome Silvia his true heart's love. -T.E.K...
State Sen. Michael LoPresti said a proposal to levy property taxes on Harvard might pass with a strong lobbying effot, a sentiment shared by State Rep. Saundra Graham and newly elected State Rep. George Bachrach...
...Granville is supremely confident that he will never be challenged--he told reporters. "If the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) ever tried to move against me without grounds I would barbecue them and deep fry them. The SEC is afraid of me because I am so powerful." Just the sentiment one would expect from a well-heeled financier...