Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alliance's last-ditch efforts to attract anti-Thatcher sentiment received a timely boost from Labor Leader Michael Foot's manifest ineptness on the stump, as well as from the growing disarray within the Labor Party. The leftist New Statesman abandoned its traditional support for Labor, urging its readers to vote for the Alliance in an effort to "stop Thatcherism in its tracks." Concluded the 70-year-old weekly: "The priority now must be to deny Mrs. Thatcher her goal of a working majority large enough for her to railroad through another five years of New Rightism...
...artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada. As James, Bujones uses his particular aggressive variation on the Bournonville style effectively, and he is nicely complemented by Marianna Tcherkassky's sweet, limpid, almost blurred Sylph. The gorgeous sets by Desmond Heeley are drenchingly romantic, but Bruhn (wisely keeps sentiment in check onstage. A revival of Jerome Robbins' fierce, street-hip New York Export: Op. Jazz has corps kids of the '80s snapping their fingers just like gang squads of the West Side Story era. This ballet shows its age (1958) only in the costumes: the sweatshirts...
...rained, however, both literally and figuratively on the school's parade. Overcast skies detracted from the week's closing ceremonies, and the upbeat sentiment at the festivities was dampened by a report that federal auditors charged the Med School with owing the U.S. government as much as $1.7 million in research funds they say the University mismanaged and poorly documented...
Aaron expresses a similar sentiment "Savor whatever is going to happen--whether it's good or bad, get the most...
Menell expresses a similar sentiment, saying "the white government has very smartly and deviously polarized and fragmented the Black political groups in South Africa. There are no credible Black leaders because they've all been killed. The government is no more than a group of fanatical fascist pigs who with a sort of evil genius, realize that if a Black government were to come to power, the whites would have no place in South Africa...