Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the satiric power of Dixon's stories springs from his reversals of sexual stereotypes. His women tend to be aggressive, and his standard male character is at best foolishly romantic. Yet the final cycle of stories in this collection suggests that a wimp can turn into a...
DIED. James Mason, 75, suave Svengali of British and Hollywood films for a half-century; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mason took a Cambridge architecture degree but was soon displaying his haunted good looks and claret baritone on the London stage and screen. In scores of romantic melodramas...
Boy meets girl. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl to his home computer. And the electronic age gets its very own romantic comedy. Miles (Lenny Von Dohlen) is a nebbishy architect with a pretty cellist (Virginia Madsen) living upstairs. One day Miles' computer, Edgar, hears Madeline playing. It is...
Skvorecky handles the young Danny with a gentleness that borders on the romantic, but not for long. Juxtaposed with the bygone scenes of adolescence are contemporary letters to the middle-aged Danny that trickle in from his Kostelec friends. Prema, the young resistance fighter, loses his focus after the war...
On The Blue Mask, Reed set up a symmetrical contrast between these opposing forces, creating an unstable universe where the romantic bliss of a song like "Heavenly Arms" played tug-of-war against the dark despair of "Waves of Fear." Even the more subdued Legendary Hearts contained dark undercurrents that...