Word: escapist
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...what really makes the Harry Potter series great is its dual nature. It's a fantasy wrapped around a nightmare, an unreal, escapist fiction with an icy core of emotional pain that is very real. In Phoenix, Rowling even kills off a major character, one of the people Harry needs most...
...later, with their single Big Sur one of the songs of the summer, they're on magazine covers and preparing to open for the Rolling Stones. The Thrills' debut album, So Much for the City, is a love letter to their time out West. "For us it's an escapist record," says lead singer Conor Deasy. "Our minds kept wandering to these places in California. But it wasn't until we heard the songs together that we realized how much we'd tapped into that sound. This is how the songs came naturally, there was no master plan." No wonder...
...Harvard students trek to the Potter movies and read the books? Now that dreary sourcebooks are temporarily put away for the summer, what does 870 pages of escapist literature offer us? For one, the long-noted parallels between Harvard and Hogwarts are no longer just skin deep in Order of the Phoenix. Sure, Annenberg still bears a striking resemblance to the Hogwarts of the two Potter movies. Hogwarts still has residential Houses, though its sorting system (the cunning kids go to Slytherin, the smart ones to Ravenclaw, the brave to Gryffindor and everyone else to Hufflepuff) is the kind...
...camps nor their Jewish victims appear in the series “After the War/Before the Wall: German Film 1945-1960,” which screens through the end of March at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA). Instead, the series shows an eclectic mix of films that range from escapist comedies to suspenseful thrillers...
...this is reality, give me my other books! Call me a sucker for escapist fiction, if you will. I take refuge in reading; I’m Matilda; I’m the baby who loves a bunch of authors. I eat a leisurely meal while leafing through Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, and my blockmates sigh in envy, perpetually mourning the death of pleasure reading in college and wistfully nostalgic about the good old days when reading for fun wasn’t something fueled by the Improbability Drive of The Hitchhiker?...