Word: sentimentals
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...Ducharme’s work also renders viewers far more susceptible to a linear understanding of the beliefs surrounding the dolls. Rather than leaving the artistic merits of the Hopi dolls to the interpretation of the outsider, who draws his own conclusions from a piece based largely on personal sentiment, Ducharme acts as a sort of middleman. By presenting Hopi art through the medium of photography, the effect the katsina dolls have on the viewer has been filtered through Ducharme’s own representation of the carvings: his positioning of the doll, use of lighting, and even how much...
...Shadow of HistoryIt would be wrong to suggest that the pro-Obama sentiment is universal inside the Clinton camp. It isn't difficult to find those allied with Clinton who believe that Obama would make an underwhelming vice-presidential nominee. Clinton, they say, will want an attack dog both on the trail and as Vice President-a role Obama is ill suited for and uncomfortable assuming. Plus, the states he could deliver she could...
...many voters wary and disappointed. Yet in recent years, Republicans have made a mantra out of Reagan's "11th Commandment": "Thou shall not criticize other Republicans." Unaligned pollster Whit Ayers notes, however, that the Clinton-Obama clashes have "tapped into racial fault lines," something missing from the anti-Mitt sentiment. "It doesn't tap into anything larger," says Ayers. "It's just personal...
...Saved by Sentiment? Although polls indicate that women were instrumental in Clinton's win in New Hampshire, I take exception to the premise that the majority of women were taken in when she showed emotion [Jan. 21]. My immediate reaction to the episode was that she was showing the frustration that had been building for days. Clinton is not a touchy-feely woman who has hidden her emotions all these years. She is cold and calculating, and I'm sure in future months we will see the real lady come to the fore, the one who will take no prisoners...
Former Harvard President and U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers weighed in this week against a congressional proposal to mandate a minimum level of university endowment spending, while at the same time endorsing the sentiment behind the recommendation...