Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As a premise for propagating the royal line in a benign African monarchy, it is as farfetched as it is far-darting. As an excuse for propagating a few laughs, it turns an honorable tradition upside down. Princes and princesses from innocently backward realms used to turn up regularly in...
Student directors are reluctant to experiment with what Walker calls "blind" or "nontraditional" casting. Few Harvard plays feature interracial couples as romantic leads.
And Walker, who in last December's Sweeney Todd cast several Blacks in traditionally white roles, including one of the romantic leads, says, "There are times when you can definitely cast without concern for race."
The contrary Russian view, from Tolstoy through Lenin, is that history is mainly forces and factors. "In historical events great men -- so called -- are but the labels that serve to give a name to an event," Tolstoy wrote in War and Peace, "and like labels they have the least possible...
The prize has never before been shared, but the pairing seems apt. Both Niemeyer, 80, and Bunshaft, 79, are really being honored for their pioneering work of 25 and 35 years ago. Bunshaft is the Miesian. As the chief design partner at New York City's Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he...