Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is striking about the book, however, is that it is so entertaining. Holroyd manages to make each successive phase of Shaw's life seem significant of itself, rather than simply as a foretoken of what was to come or as raw material for the plays. Even minor figures often...
Job listings posted at the SEO range from dog walking ($5 an hour) to computer programming ($25 an hour) to the Calvin Klein modeling job ($250 a day, plus an all-expenses-paid trip to Florida). Many of the openings are for University jobs in the dining halls or on...
STEVE EARLE: COPPERHEAD ROAD (Uni). Songs of sorrow and defiance: a rock- inflected, country-based album that takes long chances with big themes, from the ghosts of Viet Nam to romantic burnout, and does them proud.
A decade after the Communist Party sanctioned the return of the profit motive, sex is once again for sale on the busy streets and crowded back alleys of China. Venereal disease -- an affliction that was officially eradicated under Chairman Mao -- has quadrupled in cities like Shanghai. Meanwhile, millions of Chinese...
While the rising incidence of divorce and the emergence of the di san zhe, or romantic triangle, are viewed by most mainlanders as serious threats to the sanctity of the Chinese family, some Chinese social scientists regard them as largely positive. Citing statistics that show a doubling of the divorce...