Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The discoveries include parts of a 200-ft. stern-wheel steamboat, a 175-ft. wooden coal barge and another 140-ft. wooden barge. These relics excite historians because no large boats of the era, nor even their construction drawings, survive. Contends Archaeologist Leslie Stewart-Abernathy, who heads the project: "When...
Those pictures also brought to Mapplethorpe's basically conservative style the electrical charge of the forbidden. Take that away, and it becomes easier to see that he has a classicist's taste for the symmetrical, the serene, the perfected, the imperishable. But against it he plays a romantic's fascination...
Reagan is at heart a romantic; Bush is not. The President has gone from a simplistic view of the "Evil Empire" to fantasies of a nuclear-free world. Bush wants to nudge perceptions of the Soviets back to a more pragmatic middle ground. Now that he has begun to spell...
Other strange and bizzare experiences mark Adam's time in San Francisco. He begins teaching at the Stringfellow School for privileged high school students, and one of the boys in his advanced English literature class begins to follow him around and eventually attempts to begin a romantic affair. Meanwhile, he...
The book begins with her decision to depart with Joyce for England at the age of 20 even though he would not marry her, and reflects back on her early life in the city of Galway in the West of Ireland. Maddox touches upon her early romantic relationships, including two...