Word: sentimentalized
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...Bergman and Monica Johnson, draws a specific parallel between Steve and another primitive creature imported to amuse jaded New Yorkers -- King Kong -- and it is a measure of director Michael Ritchie's deftness that he gets the right kind of laughs from the device. Ritchie avoids the kind of sentiment that so often encrusts tall sporting tales, and even gets a funny performance out of baseball's very own Kong, Yankee boss George Steinbrenner. The Scout is the best comedy-fantasy about baseball ever made, which goes to show that if Hollywood keeps trying, eventually someone will get it right...
...Importance of Being Oscar attempts to convey this variety of sentiment in the context of Oscar Wilde's life, with mixed results. Written by Micheal Mac Liammoir, the play presents a biographical sketch of the author interspersed with excerpts from Wilde's writing. The excerpts, taken from poetry, prose, and personal letters, are well chosen and demonstrate Wilde's insightful commentary on 19th-century European society. They also suggest the depth and vulnerability of Wilde's nature, his sensitivity to the events and people in his life...
...council disregarded student sentiment and tried to push through the $60,000 increase in revenue anyway. Indeed, it took the efforts of a political dynamo and former council member, Anjalee C. Davis '96, to have the council's decision put to a College-wide referendum so that students would have a final say in the matter. This raises serious questions about whose interests the council really represents...
...first new concentration since Women's Studies was created in 1986, ESPP was born of the growing faculty sentiment that environmental studies was an important field of study, as well as pressure from both students and the outside world, Petersen says...
...President Jimmy Carter. Instead, he referred only to the 1993 Governors Island agreement that would have ousted the junta members who booted him two years earlier. Capitol Hill held no sympathy: "It's time for Jean-Bertrand Aristide to get real," a U.S. Representative said, voicing a common congressional sentiment. Carter didn't make things any easier for President Clinton. He said he intended to remain in contact with the Haitian rulers "because no one in our State Department . . . will even communicate" with them. Carter also revealed a major motive for undertaking the Haiti mission: "I was ashamed...