Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Steve Martin and John Candy hitch comedy to sentiment. -- Streisand is mixed in Nuts...
...worms rather than blusters his way into your life. The movie works the same way. For all its broadly farcical air, Planes, Trains and Automobiles finally seals its bond with the audience in the same way that Martin and Candy seal theirs, with a sly, shy resort to sentiment. Maybe that's just the spirit of the season, but one does not mind indulging...
...Reyner Banham, who lives in California. "There is a tendency to overlook the aesthetic quality of a building and just keep it because it is old," says Robert Winter, a cultural historian at Occidental College in Los Angeles. "Too often the reason for declaring something ((a historic landmark)) is sentimental." Sentiment is inadmissible? Isn't the new feeling for preservation and for cities inherently romantic, clearheadedness clouded by a large dose of nostalgia...
What inspired Syria's change of heart? According to summit participants, Assad concluded he could no longer remain aloof from the Arab world. Sentiment among the Arab leaders overwhelmingly favored pressuring Iran to end the war, and Assad apparently felt he had to move with the tide, putting at risk the millions of tons of free and subsidized oil that Iran has provided his country as a reward for his support. As for Egypt, the participants were eager to mend relations with the Arab world's most populous and powerful state so that Cairo's 450,000-man army could...
...love is of man's life a thing apart," wrote Byron in Don Juan; " 'Tis woman's whole existence." Dan's fling is of Dan's marriage a thing apart. He can shrug off the sentiment as he showers off the sweat. No love for Alex, no guilt toward Beth. Thanks, hon, gotta run. After all, as he tells Alex, he's happily married; he has a six-year-old girl; "I'm lucky." When Alex pops the question -- "So what are you doing here?" -- he figures he can squirm out of it. But Dan has underestimated her fatal attraction...