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...first grownup singing-cartoon romantic tragedy. But these two movies also had an almost toxic serioso content. At times they got so solemn they could have been Broadway musicals in the fashionable I'm-miserable-I'm-a- monster-I'm-a-Times-Square-whore-my-ship-is-sinking mode. Songs for suicides...
...ratchet up their own quotas of service pieces (the industry term for articles that are useful, as opposed to being about Tea Leoni). Esquire, which in its '60s incarnation published some of the decade's defining journalism, has just this month been remade in a more service-oriented mode: the president of its corporate division now describes it as a "tool kit for living." David Granger, a GQ editor who last week was named Esquire's new editor in chief, insists that "all aspects of a man's life are pretty damn interesting, including fashion, health, grooming." Sure, but this...
...piece on wedding gifts: "The nuptials must be attended. He's your bud, man. And it's not like you don't know her. Besides, you're fairly certain she hasn't mentioned that incident in the bathroom at Roberto's wedding." This is a prevalent mode of writing that might be called men's magazine second person; "bro" and "dude" also turn up as forms of address. The noun stuff--so redolent of uncomplicated, gym-socks-on-the-floor guyness--is another key word, as in the slogan of Men's Health: "Tons of Useful Stuff...
...There was nothing new to us in that report because we have been interacting with alumnae for years," she says. "My Harvard colleagues have gotten caught up in the competitive mode when we really could be more useful to students and alumni through collaboration...
...never easy being a spy in the house of love. It is certainly not as funny as Dunne and Gordon must have thought it could be. But the movie does find some grotesque comic traction when Maggie and Sam move from the passive to the active mode, their prime target being poor Anton. They plant evidence indicating that he's having an affair on the side. They ruin the restaurant he runs by bringing in a horde of cockroaches the night the New York Times food critic is dining there. They destroy his fallback career as a model by making...