Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faced with this out-of-nowhere phenomenon, Hollywood cheers and shudders. Any movie that scares up business is considered good for the rest of the industry. But this one became a hit by breaking too many rules. No-star indie films usually make money with charm and sentiment; Blair Witch has neither. So the mass audience will accept something strident, elliptical, confrontational--what next? The movie was shot with its actors' being put through an eight-day survival game. They shot the film and made up the dialogue while the directors lurked out of sight and played sneaky tricks...
...year after the Welfare Reform bill passed--which I voted against--there were 29% more children living in...deep poverty... Reducing [that number] should be the North Star for our society." The line got a big hand. But later people were curiously unmoved; they'd been cheering the sentiment, not the sentimentalist. The response of these Democratic regulars--those who man phone banks and get out the vote--shows how hard it will be for Bradley to wrest the nomination from Gore. "Bradley didn't say anything to change my mind," said Bertrice Hall, a union administrator and enthusiastic Gore...
...large part of the sentiment from the student body last year was, 'What does this mean for us?'" she said. "I think more of a concern was, 'What does this reflect about the nature of the school?' Part of that was a disconnection from one another...
...large part of the sentiment from the student body last year was, 'What does this mean for us?"" she said. "I think more of a concern was, 'What does this reflect about the nature of the school?' Part of that was a disconnection from one another...
...never been higher. There comes a time in every civilization when people have had enough of a bad thing, and the difference between this moment and previous spasms of reform is that it springs from the grass roots and is not driven by politicians or legal institutions. Gun-control sentiment is everywhere in the country these days--in the White House, the presidential campaigns, the legislatures, the law courts and the gun industry itself. But it seems nowhere more conspicuous than in the villages, the houses of worship and the consensus of the kitchen...