Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan, farmers will generally derive a larger portion of their income, typically more than a third, from the Government. As a result, budget-cutting pressure could force the program to be scaled back next year in Congress. Moreover, the dramatic increase in U.S. farm subsidies fans protectionist sentiment in other countries...
...Sentiment scotches the wit in "About Last Night," an expansion and dilution of David Mamet's 1974 one-acter Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Written as a series of blackout scenes involving two working-class pals and the two young women they fancy, the play was rancid, funny and dead-on-target. So why would Screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue want to turn it into a Pillow Talk for the nouveau quiche set? Now the story is about a nice girl (the exemplary Demi Moore) and a pretty guy (Rob Lowe) who triumph over their busybody buddies (Elizabeth Perkins...
Sleight of hand: Reagan is the first complete television President. The implications of that mastery are unsettling. Says Political Scientist James David Barber of Duke University: "Television news is very heavy on feelings. There is always a temptation to reduce the question to sentiment. Reagan's criterion of validity is theatrical rather than empirical...
...Hong Kong the sentiment, although not the issue, was very similar. A 53-year-old textile factory owner asked increduously, why do Americans seek to retaliate against the Hong Kong textile industry for its trade deficit...
...Reagan is just skillful at capitalizing upon it. His manipulation of the American public into supporting the highly immoral bombing of Libya is an excellent example of this. In contrast, he has had to fight against this phenomenon on the issue of international trade. The President largely opposes popular sentiment for strict protectionist measures against many of our trading partners...