Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What holds Butley together is its humor. The play is consistently funny. The laughs are disarming; this should be a sad if not pathetic story. But Butley himself could never allow that--he's too cynical, too intelligent, to allow sentiment to creep in. It is only after the final well deserved curtain call that depression begins to take hold, begins to work its way through the memories of the evening, until it seems to have consumed not just the collapse, but the entire story of Ben Butley...
Edelin has charged since his conviction that the jurors were from an area where anti-abortion sentiment ultimately prejudiced their decision...
Michael O'Neill a coalition, member said that the decision was made after "dorm coordinators reported to the meeting that student sentiment was extremely favorable to striking in protest against the proposed budget cuts...
Still, if Wendy Waldman can find that effervescence that appears to be so strong in some of her songs and if she can add a little more yeast to her voice and to her sentiment then all that's needed is some aging before she can replace the queen who sang of "stroking the star maker machinery behind the popular song...
Some opponents of more aid to Indochina suspected that the Administration's push for Cambodian funds was aimed at enlisting help later for South Viet Nam. The Cambodia request allows members of Congress to appease anti-aid sentiment at home by voting against it, this theory goes, and thus makes a later vote for Viet Nam funds less risky. Moreover, if Cambodia soon falls and there are recriminations, it will be harder to vote against aid for Saigon...