Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN HARRY MET SALLY . . . it was loathe at first sight. But he (Billy Crystal) learned to accept her (Meg Ryan) as a friend, with almost no romantic strings attached. The "almost" makes for a witty sexual tension in Rob Reiner's comic valentine to love, friendship, Manhattan and Woody Allen...
Seen during the Canadian part of the current tour, Scotch Symphony, Balanchine's musings on La Sylphide, worked best with Yelena Pankova, 25, as the sylph. A springy dancer blessed with a high, light jump, she seemed to grasp the choreographer's oft repeated injunction: respond to the music and...
Naipaul is English not so much by an accident of history as by personal acts ^ of intelligence and will. Thirty-eight years in Britain have given him a proper accent, a direct way with service staff and an impatience with romantic abstraction. He has a British wife, Patricia, with whom...
My roommates thought the whole situation was great and envied my early-on success in the romantic front. I was not so sure, but their enthusiasm convincedme to have a good time at the formal and to continue our friendship. So, whenever he came over we would talk for hours...
Now, this is not to say that the second you decide you are not romantically inclined toward someone you should just blurt it out. Each person has his or her own timing and reason. But, instead of riding on an emotional roller coaster of guilt and romantic disinterest, it is...