Word: romanticization
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With an added risqué make-out session here and a beer pong tournament there, “The Quad” may, at first, seem like a Harvard version of “High School Musical.” But “The Quad” is a...
There are extraneous scenes - namely Lopez's wrestling with a backyard raccoon problem - and an obviously fabricated character, Mary, who is simultaneously Lopez's editor, his ex-wife and his romantic interest. Thankfully, she's played by Catherine Keener, so the implausibility almost doesn't matter. Downey approaches Lopez as...
Why do we have so many romantic partners? Thanks to multiple marriages and divorces, cohabitation, stepfamilies and various other couple combinations, America experiences "more turbulence in our family lives, more changes of partners and parents, than any other nation." So says Johns Hopkins University professor of public policy Cherlin, whose...
"Love Story" is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them! For the first time, I could relate to that Romeo-and-Juliet situation where the only people...
Even in his own country, Ayckbourn has never gotten the critical respect accorded contemporaries such as Tom Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or nuclear physics or Russian intellectuals. Ayckbourn's realm is more familiar: the domestic and romantic trials of modern middle-class Brits...