Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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He was the greatest actor of our time, dimming those mere celluloid performers like Ronald Reagan. He was on a stage as wide as the world and in a drama of the centuries. He commanded with Marlborough and debated with Churchill; he dined with Jefferson and rode with Sherman to...
Krasner always wanted to paint big pictures, ones that stretched arm and eye, surfaces that rose to the challenge of scale that was embedded in abstract expressionism. But she was able to find a way of rapid gestural drawing that did not depend on the skeining and overlay of thrown...
Marvin Mitchelson, 54, palimony lawyer, on prenuptial contracts: "In nine of ten agreements I've drawn up, the couples eventually got divorced. It might be a wise legal move, but it sure isn't romantic."
Victorian writers, observed G.K. Chesterton, "were lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg a little shorter than the other." That remark has been amplified by Phyllis Rose in her lively study of five 19th century couples. The title, Parallel Lives, has two meanings: the disparate views of...
Shortly after she finished filming the spy thriller Gorky Park in Finland and Sweden, Polish Actress Joanna Pacula, 25, began mastering the fearsome Los Angeles freeways ("My car is like my purse, you have to take it everywhere") and polishing her English before a promotion tour to plug the movie...