Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remake must invariably be inferior to the original. We do not reward embezzlers with good-citizenship prizes, do we? But rules are made to be broken, and the new version of Preston Sturges' 1948 comedy, Unfaithfully Yours, scores a narrow but clean win over one's nostalgic sentiment for the old master's original. Director Howard Zieff has retained the classic farcical premise: a jealous husband (Dudley Moore) is erroneously convinced that his young wife (Nastassja Kinski) is cuckolding him and is maniacally determined to gain revenge. Sturges' neat twists are retained too: the husband...
...launched on a national tour featuring three of her jazz classics (Eight Jelly Rolls, Sue's Leg, Baker's Dozen) and some provocative new pieces that break away from the American nostalgia that is her specialty. Nine Sinatra Songs is vintage Tharp, drenched in '40s sentiment but done so well, with every upbeat affirmation so radiantly realized, that no easy label will stick...
...local gay students group. In justifying its expulsion of Matthews, the military maintained that she could be a lesbian, but she couldn't be a lesbian soldier. According to the military, gay people make discipline and recruitment difficult. This past spring a military spokes-person at Harvard reflected this sentiment with "homosexuals make other people uncomfortable." Another officer has been quoted as saying that "we don't necessarily have to reflect the values of society." In other words equal access, individual liberty, and rationality are not necessarily values the armed forces must accept...
...their three youngest sons. Their daughters Nilguen and Aynur, 21, have a small apartment on the top floor of the same building. Mustafa is a forklift operator at the Siemens factory, where he has worked for 15 years. He is a cheerful, gregarious man. The wave of anti-Turkish sentiment has left him puzzled and saddened, and he sees little help from the national government. "I am not political," he says. "I don't know what they think. They accept us as workers, but not as Menschen. They asked us to come and work here, but now that things...
...with Grow Old with Me. Yoke's album notes explain: "John and I always thought, among many other things, that we were maybe the reincarnation of Robert [Browning] and Liz [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]." Lennon wanted Grow Old with Me to be an anthem for occasions of ceremony and sentiment, like weddings and anniversaries. Just the sort of song, that is, that he twitted Paul McCartney for writing, although not even his ex-writing partner ever sniveled so stereophonically as Lennon as he serenades his flower princess. Ono does display a neat flash of wit in her final song...