Word: classicize
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...course, one person's downside is another hungry celeb's upside. Pratt, who has pubished a book called How to Be Famous, only sees positives in the 2010 carpet. More media means more words. More photographers means more images. "The red carpet is definitely different and has lost the classic romance in a sense," he says. "Did it lose its mystique? No, I think it's been revolutionized, like Hollywood has always done...
...young Tom Hanks, history was as dull as an algebra equation. For Hanks - a classic baby boomer, born in 1956 - World War II was just a string of long-ago muzzle flashes in black-and-white. Yet he did have a more direct connection to the global cataclysm. His father had been a U.S. Naval mechanic (second class) in World War II. But Amos Hanks wasn't the type to tell his son tales of bravery and sacrifice. "Growing up, I always knew Dad was somewhere in the Pacific fixing things," Hanks says. "He had nothing nice to say about...
...think a cool place would be somewhere down in the bowels of Widener. I remember finding secret tunnels running from Widener to Pusey Library one morning. There’s something cinematic about being down in the basement of Widener. It’s classic, like an Indiana Jones adventure movie...
...favorite moment in Barack Obama's recent health care summit came when Senate majority leader Harry Reid surgically exposed the emptiness of a key Republican debating point, using the classic political tactic of jujitsu: he allowed the force of the opposition's argument to carry it into the abyss. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, an obstetrician, had delivered a passionate - and seemingly well-informed - statement about the need for medical-malpractice reform. "O.K., Senator, you win," Reid responded. "Look, we Democrats don't see malpractice the same way you do. Our traditional supporters among the trial lawyers hate...
...Classic, in fact, was the watchword of the night. "I just wanted to do a straight-up, classic burger," said former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn of Washington's Good Stuff Eatery, the defending champion, clad in a boxer's robe and wearing a giant title belt. "We do classic burgers at Bill's," said Brett Reichler, chef of the upstart Bill's Bar and Burger, a first-time entrant who followed Mendelsohn's lead in having hot models stand around getting out the vote. "What can I say?" said Randy Garutti, czar of Danny Meyer's phenomenally successful Shake...