Word: entertain
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...exile, redemption, faith, and identity become so much more: questions contained in plot and action, character and style, dialogue and metaphysical meditation. Chabon has made no secret of his interest in genre fiction and desire to obliterate the supposed highbrow/lowbrow divide. In 2005, he wrote a passionate defense of entertainment, arguing that rather than handling “the things that entertain them with gloves of irony and postmodern tongs,” intelligent people should reject “a narrow, debased concept of entertainment.” Instead, Chabon proposed an expanded definition encompassing “everything...
...week later, the clarinet has been silenced, and after several weeks spent finishing the movie on the West Coast, Seinfeld flies off to entertain the nice folks in Colorado Springs. After the set, he bows to a standing ovation, and then he's gone, ducking into a Mercedes waiting behind the theater. "That show, for me, was one of the best ones I've had in a long time," says Seinfeld en route to the airport. "It's a focus thing. I haven't been onstage not thinking about the movie for a long time." In a few minutes, Seinfeld...
...subtler moral complexity than Into the Wild affords. I think the central mistake of this film derives from its lack of irony, a sense it refuses to impart that the world may not be exactly as the zealous Christopher perceives it to be. The film needs at least to entertain the possibility that its protagonist was driven less by high principle than by lamentable screwiness. And we need to leave it carrying some sense of tragic consequence with us. Instead, we're simply glad to be finished, at last, with this annoying man-child...
...powerful Queen, Blanchett dons a succession of costumes: a lavishly embellished yellow dress on her throne, an extraordinary ivory confection with a colossal skirt, and a pale blue frock with an embroidered bolero to entertain in private. Byrne also has a way with beautiful ruffs, those starched and pleated lace collars. Might they resonate in the real world? "I wouldn't be surprised if there was a trend for ruffs or ruffly necks after this film," ventures Byrne. Says Powell: "Tudor style probably won't catch on at the High Street level, but elements are always used, even...
Despite Kidd’s assertion that “the College is not going to re-entertain this question,” we hope that the UC and Castine will continue to campaign for Crimson Cable, perhaps appealing to the higher-ups in University Hall. At the very least, Castine, the UC, as well as the Harvard student body at large, deserve a detailed explanation as to why a project that seems to promise so much for students at so little cost to the College was summarily scrapped...