Word: fancifulism
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Rosen might have amended his statement to say that violence can be a corollary of gravity and seriousness only if there is a coherent narrative motive. Otherwise, the film drifts into the horror genre where violence is composed as spectacle for shock value. “Flags of Our Fathers...
The JCPenney at Queens Center mall in Elmhurst, N.Y., is decked out for the holidays. Nothing surprising there. But visit the second floor, and you'll find something quite unexpected sandwiched between women's coats and fine jewelry: a 3,100-sq.-ft. Sephora, the European retailer known for its...
Although I am not eager to learn the dark secrets of my friends and family, I’d still like a bit more truthfulness in holiday newsletters. Lying may seem like a good option in some circumstances, but it destroys any usefulness that the newsletter might have for other...
But thanks to the democratization and coarsening of culture, hardly anyone reads the classics of the Western canon anymore (the pragmatist will object that at least they can read, as well as feed their families). A familiarity with canonical texts is no longer considered an essential prerequisite of citizenship in...
What the "Happy Holidays" crowd didn't realize was that not saying "Merry Christmas" was as annoying to traditionalists as saying it was to non-Christians. The debate had little to do with belief; it was about people's fond, perhaps fanciful, memories of Christmases past.