Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentiment was echoed later by Secretary of State George Shultz, who warned that if Congress failed to approve an aid package for the contras, the U.S. eventually would face "an agonizing choice about the use of American combat troops" in Central America. It was one of Shultz's toughest statements to date on the possibility of military intervention...
...simply mistaken in saying that no Radcliffe Union of Students-sponsored speaker at their April 14 "teach-in" "openly admitted that an abortion kills a human being." Panelist Vilma DiBiase, director of counseling at the Crittendon Clinic, said: "Everyone knows that an abortion kills a human being." This sentiment was also echoed and repeated by various pro-choice people in the audience. It is after all, not surprising that this statement was made, because everyone knows that it is true...
...than through the usual Pentagon procurement process. A House Armed Services subcommittee voted last week to ask the Air Force to hold a fly-off between the F-20 and the F-16 in order to do some comparison shopping for fiscal 1987. Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska reflects sentiment in the Senate for backing the F-20. In a hearing last month, he warned the Air Force, "You're going to get some F-20s this / year whether you like...
...eternally apart, these two ironic superheroes have a mediating companion, the impish cutpurse Phillipe (Matthew Broderick again). Not a bad premise for a wistful romance, especially when it stars three such appealing actors. Alas, the script (by Edward Khmara, Michael Thomas and Tom Mankiewicz) jumbles modern slang with chivalric sentiment; and Director Richard Donner (The Omen, Superman) is no spellbinder of medieval melancholy. "I believe in miracles," says the evil bishop (John Wood) who laid on the curse. "It's part of my job." Making miracles is Donner's job--and, Dick, you're fired...
Depeche Mode, whether they realize it or not, are astride the twilight zone of sentiment, sentimentality, and naked-nipple camp. With a synthesizer beat that commands the dance floor, tender melodies that call for industrial-sized Dramamine, and pretty-boy vocals that would do credit to the Krokodiloes. Depeche Mode somehow manages to subvert the teen-age romantic schlock slot they ought to fit so well...