Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cayatte is a former lawyer, and he approaches an audience the way he might have made a summation to a jury: his characters are less people than points in an argument. It is an argument in which sentiment undermines logic: despite the lovers' hardships and separations, Cayatte manages to stage at least one reunion per reel...
...chose Harrisburg as a focal point to direct our general antiwar sentiment," Lineberger said...
...HAMPSHIRE, MARCH 7. Important psychologically because it is first, this primary presents dangers to Muskie. A slight shift of sentiment in the small state could undermine his standing in the polls, which currently give him 58% of the vote. The shift could go in any of a number of directions. McGovern is the most serious threat, though he is still far behind. Campaigning for the conservative vote, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty is given some 3% in the polls, mainly because he is supported by the state's biggest paper, the Manchester Union Leader. Other candidates include Indiana Senator...
...barring busing. Mondale did not advocate busing in all situations and condemned it in some, but upheld "the use of reasonable transportation" as one tool to achieve integration "where it can be accomplished." Privately, congressional liberals advised civil rights groups to back down from rejection of any antibusing legislation; sentiment against busing is simply too strong, they argued, to prevent passage of some sort of bill, and it would be best to collaborate on a compromise statute...
...L.A.P.D. Wambaugh almost challenges his reader: "You want a pig? I'll show you a real pig." Bumper is a flatulent, potbellied, 275-lb. prototype of the bulls that demonstrators love to hate. The caricature is deliberate; the author means to endow a stereotype with complexity and sentiment. Bumper has his own street ethics: "When it came to accepting things from people on my beat, I did have one rule - no money. I never felt bought if a guy gave me free meals or a case of booze, or a discounted sport coat, or if a dentist fixed...