Word: sentimentalization
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...That, anyway, is the proposition of The Queen, an immensely entertaining and seemingly acute chronicle of the week Diana died, as dramatized through the very different reactions of stern, befogged Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) and of Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), who was keenly attuned to public sentiment and how to manipulate it. The film, written by Peter Morton and directed by Stephen Frears (best known for Dangerous Liaisons), won the screenplay and actress prizes at Venice this month. Friday The Queen helps launch the 44th New York Film Festival before opening in selected cities...
...plead guilty to charges of accepting free gifts and meals from lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He's not seeking reelection, putting his House seat in danger for Republicans. And that's not all the problems for the G.O.P. in Ohio. "You've got a national anti-Republican, anti-incumbent sentiment that wasn't there two years ago," says Peter Brown, who surveys Ohio races for the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. Voters aren't happy about the economy, Iraq or President Bush here either. Even Neil Clark, a veteran G.O.P. lobbyist and former top Republican state senate official, says "The state...
...dropped by the Harvard College Carnival on Friday. The whole thing reeked of state-school envy, a troubling sentiment I feel, if the College is to lead the nation and not merely reflect it. Nevertheless, I did enjoy myself, and for this I congratulate the newly elected College Events Board. The bumper cars were very cool. Enjoyable though it was, the carnival will probably be forgotten. It was like Harvard-Yale without the hookups. Or alcohol. Or meaning. It was also like a large family reunion—noisy and irregular—with everyone smiling on for dear life...
...protester outside one of their concerts shouting, "Be proud of your country. Be ashamed of the Dixie Chicks." Another said of Natalie: "They should send her over to Iraq, strap her to a bomb and drop her over Baghdad." One patriot summed up the anti-Chicks sentiment: "Freedom of speech is fine... but not in public...
...Lebanon has provoked economic anxieties. Nightly news broadcasts that Iranians watch on their illegal satellite dishes show Hizballah doling out thick stacks of cash to displaced Shi'ites, courtesy of Iran. Because President Ahmadinejad enjoys pandering to public sentiment in the Arab world, the flow of Iranian resources to Lebanon is no secret. But this spending on a faraway Arab community infuriates Iranians and revives an ugly Persian chauvinism that considers Arabs uncultured and backward. One story I heard last week has the wife of Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah receiving a gift of Iranian caviar and thinking...