Word: romanticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The chillier international weather involving Russia makes many nostalgic for Henry Kissinger. Walter Lippmann wrote several years ago: "Nixon's role in American history has been that of a man who had to liquidate, defuse, deflate the exaggeration of the romantic period of American imperialism and American inflation: inflation...
The portrait endures like a retinal image after the lights are turned off, at once romantic and classical: the artist as stoic.
Nor do the co-directors ignore the poignancy of their tale. Though the film is set almost entirely in modern Los Angeles, it never gives the audience time to question its fantastic premise or its hopelessly romantic conviction that love can triumph over class differences, physical metamorphoses and even death...
His romantic commitments are, as ever, ephemeral. Says his sister: "Neither of us would have a conventional marriage because of the intensity of the marriage we witnessed every day as children. We need more breathing room in our lives. I can't imagine Warren with children. When he first met...
(20 of 20) magic moment in American history. Which, of course, is a misreading of history. The magic Camelot of John F. Kennedy never existed. The knights of his round table were able, tough, ambitious men, capable of kindness, also capable of error. Of them all, Kennedy was the toughest...