Word: emotionalizing
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Not all young British artists mummify sharks, put their unmade beds on display or trot round the celebrity circuit. Some stay quietly in their studios, recording their surroundings in empty cityscapes haunted by their missing inhabitants, lit by streetlamps, early dawn or winter dusk. Chris Campbell's specialty is car...
It was after the seventh or eighth tumbler of rice whiskey that the tears began to flow. Nai Tong, the weather-beaten, gold-toothed village chief, blinked hard, splashed the whiskey jug around and raised his glass. "Welcome to Sipsongpanna, daughter of the Dai. Welcome home." It was a magic...
Then there's the suave Hidetoshi Nakata, who plays in Italy's Serie A league. Other Japanese players have gained overseas exposure, and that seasoning is a factor in their Cup success. But Nakata is the team's reigning International Man of Mystery. He carries himself as coolly as a...
The phrase has fallen out of use in recent years. These days, aggressive journalists?and impatient fans?won't take inexplicability as an excuse. So much emotion and money is invested in sports, blame must be apportioned, scapegoats identified: the referee was incompetent, the other side cheated, the coach was...
Unlike Cassavetes, who relied on the improvisatory intelligence of actors, Zaben does it all himself, including the "performances." This presents the book's biggest challenge: the art. Everything has been drawn with heavy brushes and thick markers, including such normally fine stuff as body hair. The result can either be...