Word: mawkishly
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...their first glimpse of the "new" Al Gore during the Democratic National Convention last July, when the vice-presidential candidate recounted his six-year-old son's brush with death and his family's journey of emotional healing. Some sneered at Gore's revelations about family counseling as mawkish exploitation of private tragedy for political gain. But many voters, aware of the transforming experience of a personal tragedy, are less cynical; they understand that politicians can be simultaneously strategic and sincere. "I thought, 'This white-bread family admitted to counseling?' " recalls Susan Longley of Liberty, Maine, who had been lukewarm...
...carefully orchestrated "unscheduled" stop. The local Democrats had done their part -- a crowd of nearly 1,000 had been waiting for several hours to gambol in the limelight. Gore, fast becoming the Ed McMahon of political warm-up acts, gave his patter- perfect introduction, complete with the mawkish reminder that Clinton's father died three months before Clinton was born. Then Clinton clambered up onto the small outdoor podium for a quick rendition of his stump speech. Knowing all too well how easily this political magic can fade, he tried to inoculate himself by warning, "In the next 88 days...
...blackballing was still the most important emotional event of his life, far weightier than marriage, fatherhood or success in the writing dodge. Or so the author tries to convince us, in glum, cheerless chapters. An ending in which Clay's daughter also comes to grief at Princeton is mawkish and clumsy...
...microfilm and a Woodstock typewriter (the famous items of evidence that nailed down the case against Alger Hiss), and an old woody station wagon like the one Nixon used for his 1950 race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas. A 1952 television set plays the "Checkers" speech, the mawkish little masterpiece that saved Nixon's vice-presidential candidacy in 1952. Another television set plays the 1960 debates against John Kennedy, which may have cost Nixon the election. In a Watergate section, one can listen to three excerpts from the White House tapes and see a montage of the last...
...feature a rather mammarial double o between the H and T of the title--may lead you to expect a typical coming-of-age teen sex comedy. Your expectations will be fulfilled. The characters are typical of the genre; the plot line is paper-thin; and the ideas are mawkish and trite. What Hooters lacks in substance, however, it makes up for in entertainment value. The result is a dumb play that is, nevertheless, amusing...