Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This sort of journey-through-society script might have led to a movie that really moved with the erratic spontaneity of street life. But The Bicycle Thief is oddly static. Events move predictably and almost mechanically. Each small experience of the distraught hero is meticulously rounded and forced in sentiment, character coloring and social comment.Even the minor movements of the actors-the boy's tumble on a rainy street, the mother's fingering of her cheek-appear overrehearsed...
...Director De Sica is a moviemaker to be taken seriously. Actually, some of his scenes do suggest Chaplin's mixture of airy charm and down-to-earth bluntness. But thus far, he seems to be merely a clever craftsman with a great facility for squirting clear drops of sentiment into every shadow, gesture and cobblestone. The Bicycle Thief pictures the seamy side of life with no more reality than the average Hollywood movie shows the shiny side...
Recommendations applying to changes in the constitution must be considered for a year, Tugman explained. "The National Conference's statement, however, is in line with current sentiment against discrimination in college fraternities," he added...
...those heldings, when considered together with the number of foreign students at the University, make it clear that Harvard refuses to be limited to just one sentiment...
...final pre-election Gallup Poll showed Lehman holding 46 per cent of the voter sentiment as against 34 per cent for Dulles. The remaining 20 per cent declared themselves undecided...