Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Contract with America's effect onAsian-Americans and immigrants is terrible," saidPham, who credited the origins of the bill toanti-immigrant sentiment...
...Sentiment against newcomers is not justlimited to conservative Republicans or racistgroups. It's a widespread problem, and we mustexpend our energy on the root cause of theproblem," he said...
Osterberg echoed Kim's sentiment...
...sense of guilty introspection swept the country when the FBI released sketches of the suspects, distinctly Caucasian John Does 1 and 2. Immediately after the Oklahoma blast, some politicians and commentators had fingered Islamic terrorists as the most likely culprits, fueling anti-Muslim sentiment and triggering calls for tougher anti-immigration measures. The feds suggested that the Does, as McVeigh seems to bear out, were members of a right-wing citizen militia targeting government agencies housed in the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Although Oklahoma police authorities were schooled in the hate groups blooming like some deadly nightshade on the fringes...
...permitted--it's really a grownup form. It needs smart dialogue and plausibly eccentric characters (Michael Rispoli contributes a beaut to this one, as an inappropriate suitor to Lucy, and such worthy veterans as Jack Warden and Glynis Johns give good comic weight too). Above all, it requires honorable sentiment--not to be confused with dishonest sentimentality...