Word: escapist
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...biographer David Maraniss, Clinton needs to be engaged in "some important, valiant fight for the good of the world to lend coherence and structure to his life. When he didn't have those fights, he would eat away at himself, he would become depressed, paranoid, surly and, one suspects, escapist." Morris neutralizes that side of Clinton--and makes this presidency possible--by playing the game so well that Clinton can almost forget he is playing it. So Clinton can go to a rally where voters scolded him for calling Bob Dole a quitter when he left the Senate, then berate...
...actually easy to get to, shows an ok variety of movies, serves up tasty mints on the way out, and even occasionally plays the "Thank You for Coming to Loewe's" jingle with the trailers. It's easy to get to. What's the point of having an escapist, adventursome night out of Harvard if there's no adventure, and no narrow escapes...
There's nothing much remarkable about Happy Hour other than the false escapist sensation. But people there really don t want to escape, else they would have. Meaning that anyone can set up a cantina south of the border and live the life of the gringo in paradise. Anyone can take off for Russia and start waiting tables. Anyone can go to Nairobi and set up a lemonade stand. But people don't; they remain their vocational selves in one American metropolis or another...
...physical of senses. That is, they were escaping in seeing farther than the T could take them. It's always struck me as paradoxical how the people I know at Harvard College could be so pre-professional in their dedication to the life of the modern bourgeois, yet so escapist in their avocations. Medicine, or law, even filmmaking, cannot satiate the spirit when they stand alone. So, like the Happy Hour revelers, we seek respite through escapism, even though we never truly escape...
...Secrets About Men Every Woman Should Know, must now be looking at their partners with smug glances, confident that they have figured out the mysteries of male machismo. It is this false sense of knowledge, based not on experience but on easy answers and ready-made explanations offered by escapist non-fiction, that can truly be damaging. Logically, it would seem that problems would be better solved looking at each relationship rather than trying to fit our jigsaw pieces into someone else's puzzle...