Word: romanticization
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Urban - and chauffeured - versions of these tours are available in Paris with 4 Roues Sous 1 Parapluie (www.4roues-sous-1parapluie.com). The wry name - "Four Wheels Beneath an Umbrella" - recalls the brief given to the original 2CV designers, which was to create a cheap car for the masses. Tours include hotel pick-up...
Toy love--the child's belief that a piece of cloth or a machine can have life, feelings, personality--is at the heart of many Pixar movies, beginning with Lasseter's '80s shorts Luxo, Jr. (whose lamp became the i in the company's logo), Red's Dream and Tin...
Harrison rummages heroically through the detritus of Gilley family life, which is certainly authentically depressing: poverty, alcoholism, physical and emotional abuse. But the deep, human reality of Billy's act eludes her--he is a dull, nasty subject, with none of the thwarted, Romantic brilliance with which Capote endows his...
Coldplay has sold 30 million copies of its first three albums, won four Grammys and cranked out several colossal ballads that, by apparent mandate of the Writers Guild, must be played during every TV drama's romantic-crisis montage. Only the deaf can claim not to know Coldplay. Loving Coldplay...
In the hours and days following our arrest, I realized that my idealized fantasies of taking gritty war photographs had been a naive dream. There’s nothing romantic about sitting in a cold prison for hours on end. After a few hours, I remember thinking, �...