Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The gimmick is that the animals have moved out of the frat house and into sum mer jobs as waiters in a resort hotel. The hotel is about as festive as Disney World in a hail storm; the characters are so familiar you can turn down the volume and speak...
This is an excellent example of the movie's contempt for both taste and religion. Life of Brian is even now being protested by spokesmen for various pious groups. They are quite right to do so, for this is no gentle spoof, no good-natured satire of cherished beliefs...
Price's gifts seem, to American ears, peculiarly English, and that may be one reason American ears have not been as responsive as the music merits. He brings rock to the music hall, overlays it with suggestions of '50s club jazz and well-shaken pop, and comes up...
Rosovsky told the group not to be too romantic about student-teacher relationships. "The Faculty consists of very busy people," he said.
The real Amy curtly evades Nathan's questions about her background. She is a smart and very tough cookie. As is Lonoff; as is Zuckerman; as is Roth himself. The Ghost Writer is a bruising book. Within its artfully tangled plot, Roth tells off his critics and debunks romantic...