Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Union's." The President-elect inspired somewhat less hope on economic problems; 56% expected him to reduce inflation, and 54% thought he would be able to cut unemployment. Significantly, however, 62% of those inter viewed believed he would "restore the confidence of the American people in Government"-a sentiment damaged in the past by Viet Nam and Watergate...
...while. Although the album is selling well enough, it is not a huge commercial hit, and so far There Goes the Neighborhood has not been spotted anywhere near the Top 40. Stevie Wonder assured the Bus Boys of his enthusiasm but warned that other blacks might not share the sentiment. "I'm not worried about blacks liking this," Brian insists. "And I'm not worried about whom we offend. Most themes for black contemporary music are party-love-dance. I think we will hit black audiences hard...
...camera is always placed for maximum poetic and dramatic effect, and he rarely resorts to flashy editing. He wrings remarkable comedy from a stock situation (the impersonator), but because the characters have such depth, and because the story accumulates meaning as it goes along, every laugh is fresh, every sentiment unforced. Epic in scope, dexterous in execution, almost Shakespearean in its authority, Kagemusha affirms Kurosawa's reputation as one of our few world-class directors...
...Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, said that many Blacks believe that the recent murders of Black children in Atlanta, the rash of incidents on college campuses, and the Greensboro acquittals are part of a "nationwide conspiracy" against blacks. This sentiment, Jackson says, coupled with the election of Ronald Reagan, has resulted in "hysteria" in some Black communities...
There are many aspects of Cornell's imagery which seem fey, precious or backward-looking: the Christmas frosting, bats and moss and dingly dells. There is a treacherous line between sentiment and sentimentality, particularly in his evocations of his own childhood. Yet time and again, even his most gothic fantasies and his most fussily reverential evocations of dead ballerinas are plucked back from the edge by Cornell's rigor as a formal artist. The essence of the box is to contain, and within a rectangular grid, at that. Cornell enhanced this with a spare, strict sense of proportion...