Word: escapists
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...world that it makes us think. Many contemporary books are intensely personal, intensely subjective and intensely cynical—not the kind of books one can read on a smelly bus ride home from Yale. But Harry Potter hit the spot; it was absorbing, satisfying and wholly escapist. And the mobs outside stores that June night are proof that my experience with the book is a common...
...place where women proposition men, and boys do too, where life tastes delicious and where wives and worries are left at home. Outside, however, Germany sits partially trembling and partially blind on the eve of Nazism. Ultimately, the political situation renders the inside less lascivious and more escapist; the Kit Kat Klub transforms into a retreat from Hitler’s Third Reich...
...escapist really be the voice of a generation? "Let's face it," he says as he prepares to fly back to Bangkok for a one-night club stint before heading down to Koh Samui for a full moon party, "I'm hopping on a plane almost every weekend. Basically, I just can't wait to take...
...those who have never played it, GTA3 (as its fans affectionately call it) sounds like just another escapist shoot-'em-up, a virtual urban war game for suburban armchair delinquents. But while most video games put you in a fantastic setting--say, a blue maze full of dots--GTA3 is set in Liberty City, a metropolis as realistic and richly detailed as Dickens' London, with weather that changes hourly and carefully rendered litter tumbling down its meticulously drawn streets. Most video games give you a challenge, like eating all the dots while dodging hungry pastel-colored ghosts. In GTA3, your...
...nature," Chase says, "so I did begin to think that. But then I began to read articles about 'the death of irony' and how [the new climate] is going to require more family films, people are going to want less complexity, people are going to want more simpleminded, escapist fare. Like that's any different than before Sept. 11!" Says Gandolfini: "9/11, I hope it's changed us. If we haven't learned something from it, that's the real f______ tragedy. But I can only do my job. If [the show] is not relevant, it's not relevant...