Word: graveyard
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Maybe we ought to just forget it--bury romantic comedy in the graveyard of genres dearly departed and move on. It was unquestionably the loveliest invention of the movies' golden age. But ours is not the golden age of anything--certainly not of romance or of high wit, surely not of that tolerant class consciousness that animated so many of those 1930s comedies. You know the old drill: rich boy meets poor girl (or vice versa), the disparities in their backgrounds--the very thing that first attracted them--sunders their romance until, defying convention, they get together at last...
This shift is uneventful. Crowley, who works the graveyard shift (mid-night to 8 a.m.) drives around, scanning the roadside for anything out of the ordinary...
...have produced a sentimental climate in some parts of the art world. That's the mood in Ross Bleckner's oil-paint gloamings and in the mournful photo assemblages of Mike and Douglas Starn. And it's in the scarlet wallpaper of Goldin's empty hotel rooms and her graveyard bouquets. Is this where all the hard questions end up, in a chapel where our voices are hushed and where grumbling about the pictures is impolite...
Devin M. Moriarity '97, who worked the graveyard shift at the desk, said it would be safer for desk employees as well, since no one should be alone at the house's only entrance in the early hours of the morning...
...Apple's latest campaign seems to be whistling past the graveyard, the tune is deliberate. It's part of an internal plan called Operation Rainbow, intended to rejuvenate the company's image by associating it--in TV ads, print spots and Websites--with hot properties like Mission and BMW's new sports coupe, the Z3 Roadster. (The Mission ad features Tom Cruise breaking, entering and Apple-PowerBooking his way through danger.) "When I got here, the Apple logo was red, blood red," says Satjiv Chahil, Apple's senior VP for corporate marketing since January. "Our goal is to get some...