Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specter of American military intervention has long been brandished by leftist governments, such as the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, and by revolutionary movements seeking to stir anti-American sentiment. Nicaraguan newspapers last week published a list of all U.S. interventions in Central America since 1854, when the U.S. Navy destroyed the Nicaraguan port of San Juan del Norte to avenge an insult to the American minister. Until now, such propaganda seemed shopworn. "This would appear to prove everything the Sandinistas have been saying about the intentions of the U.S. here," one American official in Managua said last week. "It gives...
Make no mistake, Never Cry Wolf is a Disney production and does have gamboling wolf pups, but director Carroll Ballard does not dish out family-restaurant-sized portions of easily-digestible nature. Instead, he treats his subject in a startlingly cool manner, devoid of treacly sentiment but shot through with a quiet, mystical passion, as in his magical The Black Stallion. Intensely beautiful images unfold one after the other, invoking that rarest of sensations nowadays un-pre-packaged wonder...
...proposal but the governor has in the past acted against his own beliefs because he thought the public felt otherwise. Most recently, he said that he would have signed the lately-defeated bill to hike the drinking age--even though he opposed it--because "there is considerable public sentiment to raise...
Regardless of "public sentiment" to sign the bill, Dukakis should still veto it, if only to postpone it for at least a year. This would allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of linking financial aid with draft registration on a national level--a law which opponents say violates the right to a fair trial and induces self-incrimination. Since the justices are expected to decide on the matter in the next few months, it would seem practical for Dukakis to delay implementation and see whether his "serious questions" are indeed justified...
...Administration's actions. We cannot say definitively that U.S. citizens were free of danger, simply because no hostages had yet been taken. In fact, some reports have indicated that the medical students were indeed in danger before the U.S. forces arrived. It was clear in 1979 that anti-American sentiment in Iran could threaten U.S. lives there, but the U.S. government took no steps to safeguard them until it was too late. And that time-over a year and a half later-eight U.S. servicemen's lives lost in a futile attempt to save the hostages and correct the initial...