Word: romanticization
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A smoker touring through the continent will be subjected to a polyglot rendition of “Smoking Kills,” amongst other dire warnings, emblazoned in gigantic letters across their packs. Pubs in London, cafés in Paris—once the setting for centuries of nicotine...
The extravagance of the label was just right. In both his music and his personality, Pavarotti's exuberance was multissimo. His voice - "one of those freaks of nature that comes very rarely in a hundred years," according to conductor Richard Bonynge - had a clear, penetrating timbre, alive with the resonance...
Love has been a fascination of mine since I was old enough to have an idea what it's about. It's a shame to hear that the movie people are having a hard time selling love. It's ridiculous to hear them say they can't think of good...
When the former Mrs. Rob Petrie made it, after all, onto her own sitcom as a single TV-news producer in Minneapolis, it was liberating for women on TV. But it also liberated TV for adults--of both sexes. Since Mary Richards was not a wife or a mom or...
It is in the arena of sexual relationships, however, that the linguistic dance can be its most elaborate. In an episode of Seinfeld, George is asked by his date if he would like to come up for coffee. He declines, explaining that caffeine keeps him up at night. Later he...