Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joe Masiell's assessment of the peculiar fate of 20th-century man emerges unmistakably from this musical potpourri. A shameless and sincere romantic, he laughs defiantly in the face of the world's many troubles. "They'll only get you down if you let 'em," he seems to say, and...
Writers, literary groupies and celebrities are lured by the island's romantic image. Wrote Alice Turner in New York magazine: "Key West is our winter Hamptons, the place we go to continue the conversation we started at Elaine's." But the resort is more laid back than the...
Off camera, Isabelle Adjani is a tough, no-nonsense Frenchwoman who regards acting as an art of deception, "fake all the time." But on camera, she is developing a persona as a romantic heroine. As Victor Hugo's tragic, love-struck daughter in The Story of Adele H., she...
His own wanderings produced the raw material for most of his fiction. There are striking similarities between the African backgrounds in Black Mischief and Scoop and descriptions in his travel books. Military service in Britain, Crete and Yugoslavia during World War II supplied incidents for Men at Arms, Officers and...
THE ROMANS never made it to Persia. Twenty centuries later, the Germans couldn't break through either. But by 1953, American agents managed to move directly to the heart of Iranian politics, placing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi on the throne his father had fled in 1941. And once he disappeared...