Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...damn few romantic comedies in recent years." Romantic, indeed, as he and she had down and muse over their desire to remain together, his love all the stronger because he will face anti-trust action when he goes home. No wonder he clings to his lass; no wonder such sentiment at the heliport farewell. The most striking leature of Avanti' is not that it strives no hard to be romantic but that it does include amusing incongruities and cute lines in spite of its quest. Few people would dislike Avanti--it's mollifying in its innocuousness...
...history of his relationship with Squibb broke into the press. Morton Mintz of the Washington Post described the hearings in detail. Mintz reported that the FDA panel turned down Ebert's labelling proposal in executive session. "I don't think they showed efficacy," one scientist said, expressing the unanimous sentiment on the panel against the drug. "The deans' data were marginal at best," said another panel member...
...Marsh is making a comeback. U.S. audiences are now in a better position to enjoy the abundant hedonism of his work: the firm round girls in their blowing dresses at Coney Island, the orgiastically crowded figure compositions, the sometimes surprisingly tough drawing. Marsh had a weakness for caricature and sentiment, but his best paintings preserve the raucous, burlesque New York of the '30s and '40s in exuberant amber...
Indeed, the antiwar sentiment that has so bedeviled the Army in recent years seems to be finding a home in the Navy now that it is doing much of the fighting. Acts of sabotage have surfaced in recent months, several of which were apparently perpetrated not by blacks but by antiwar whites. The Navy is holding a white seaman as the suspected arsonist who set a multimillion-dollar fire aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal at Norfolk. The carrier Ranger was recently laid up in drydock for almost four months because metal parts had been thrown into its delicate gears...
Holmes does, however, usefully point out the strength of Thurber's Mid-westernism, and his ties with Columbus, his home town. He shows the writer fumbling for a point of view: writing with outrageous sentimentalism, for instance, about a tennis match between Helen Wills and Suzanne Lenglen, then finding a way to blend the sentiment and fantasy in the woolly reminiscence of The Night the Bed Fell...