Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much antiwar sentiment was based solely on this aversion to the killing, but some people, particularly students who had time to ponder such matters, started to search for an explanation for the Vietnamese resistance. In the face of a nearly total onslaught by the greatest military power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern War? Why did did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after...
Anti-Sierra sentiment is strongest along the North Slope, where oil wells remain capped. "People down south worry more about the ice than they do about the people up here," complains Vic Vickery, 35, an assistant drilling superintendent for British Petroleum. "We can't even have a gun here to protect ourselves against bears. We had four grizzlies come in the other day and we had to chase 'em off with a fork lift...
...latest series of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific, Australia's liberal daily the Australian declared last week, was "committed by a national leadership which displays the moral sense of a gang of street bashers." The words were blunter than most, but the sentiment was echoed around much of the world. After the French detonated their first bomb of the series two weeks ago at the lonely atoll of Mururoa, about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti, Peru broke off diplomatic relations with France. Last week 13 other nations, including Australia, Japan and Canada, sent protests to Paris...
This is perhaps the first movie in which the traditional male-female roles have been completely-and rather deftly-reversed. Miss Dobson always takes the initiative and is indisputably at the epicenter of the action. The leading man, Bernie Casey, is trotted out for a little sentiment and sex appeal only when a romantic interlude is needed. Casey handles his role of sex object and minor plot tool with aplomb and a certain bemusement. Miss Dobson is beautiful, with the kind of long (6 ft. 2 in.), easily gratifying symmetry that makes words like statuesque seem puny. It is also...
McGuane's own trademark is the monstrous practical joke that is at the center of all his books. In The Sporting Club, a demonic hoax-artist contrived to destroy an exclusive hunt club in northern Michigan. The Bushwhacked Piano contained a lunatic scheme to cash in on antipesticide sentiment by selling tall towers stocked with insect-eating bats...