Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kind benefitted from a beguilingly creepy ad campaign, giving glimpses of alien possession. Audiences didn't feel the same urgency, seven weeks before Christmas, to see the 467th version of A Christmas Carol, whose trailer emphasized hectic, hurtful chase scenes over the Scroogean character comedy and hearth-and-heart sentiment. As for Precious, $100,000 a screen is a feat accomplished only twice before (by Dreamgirls and Brokeback Mountain), but the movie had enormous promotion from executive producer Oprah Winfrey to complement its sheaf of enthusiastic reviews. Then again, it's the rare indie movie that, over its entire...
...history. In this, his final novel, author W.G. Sebald synthesizes multiple literary genres: “Austerlitz” is at once autobiography, history, travelogue, and meditation. It’s publication in 2001—mere months before his death in a car accident—echoed the sentiment of closure, or the struggle for some semblance thereof, after a century of bloodshed and horror in Europe...
...performer Samantha C. Cohen ’12 (who is also a comper on The Crimson’s arts board) echoes this sentiment, citing the value of bonding with fellow dancers, working with world-class choreographers and staging state-of-the-art performances. “It can definitely get a little stressful during intensive rehearsals, especially... as it gets closer to performance time,” she says, “but in the end, those are the amazing experiences that we get to share as a company...
...appointment "as [an] interference in Thailand's domestic affairs [that] puts personal interest and relations before the national interests of the two countries." The country's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva echoed the dissatisfaction: "The announcement by the Cambodian government harmed the Thai justice system and really affected Thai public sentiment...
...It’s story telling,” he said. “It’s a kind of Odyssey.” It fulfills “the primal aspect of people—everybody just likes telling stories.” Alessandro expressed a similar sentiment. “It is always new, challenging,” he says. “Humanity has had oral tradition forever. This is but one manifestation of that.” And after all, “that’s what it’s about...