Word: escapists
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...more sit-down restaurants compared with the initial emphasis on fast food, and those restaurants serve wine. Prices on souvenirs and accommodations are lower, too." The rival Parc Ast?rix, based on the popular French cartoon series, just can?t compete in Disney?s league: France prefers its escapist fantasy strictly American...
Maggie (Julia Roberts) runs a small-town hardware store. But she's more famous for leaving her bridegrooms at the altar. Ike (Richard Gere) is a newspaper columnist who writes a piece exaggerating her escapist exploits in terms sexist enough to get him fired. Are these people meant for each other or what...
...breaking her will, he'll help her become a better actress. Questions on the nature of identity--is it fixed or fungible?--arise throughout Anna's captivity and its aftermath, but the amusingly absurd plot moves too swiftly to address them, opting instead for a tone that is rewardingly escapist...
...right behind the stage.) Buffett's fans, the Parrotheads--so named by a friend of Buffett's at a Cincinnati, Ohio, show in 1986--have made tonight his 35th consecutive sell-out in this city, the kind of middle-American burg where people are thirstiest for Buffett's cheerful, escapist anthems. Quenching that thirst is Buffett's civic duty...
...John Ruskin on down. The leader of the second wave of that peculiarly English art movement, Pre-Raphaelitism. The man who defined the ideals of pictorial sentiment for an exceedingly pious age; whose angels and Blessed Damozels, Arthurian knights and shrinking, somewhat cataleptic virgins were the very essence of escapist painting. What could this industrious and backward-dreaming fabulist have to say to the 20th century...