Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Uniformly good singing graces this production. Peter Hopkins (Pish-Tush) stands out for his remarkable bass. Romantic leads Daley and Avery also offer excellent musical performances but could ham it up more.
ONE of the playwright's more mature romantic comedies, this is not the typical show of Cowardice. Blithe Spirit is about a man whose marriage is threatened by the ghost of his first wife.
Henry Lightcap, hero of the present novel, is a freestyle philosopher and romantic crank, madly in love with the West as it used to be and waitresses and barmaids as some of them still are. He shares Abbey's employment history, his age more or less (late middle), his marrying...
Americans do themselves a great disservice if they believe the notion that some "Golden Age" died in the streets of Dallas 25 years ago. Kennedy's own administration, for all its energy and romance, had setbacks and problems: the Bay of Pigs, increased involvement in Vietnam, tensions over civil rights...
African Madness is a terse testament to wanderlust. The book recounts four trips that Alex Shoumatoff, a staff writer for The New Yorker, made to that continent in 1986 and '87. As he notes in his preface, "My vision of the tropics was, and still is, largely romantic." This mood...