Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other students find their VCRs useful for less worthy intentions--cheap dates, for example. One senior, who asked not to be identified, says, "If it's a romantic mood you're after, the best thing to do is rent '9 1/2 Weeks' and get the girl real horny and then...
DeLillo is also on dubious footing in tangling with the romantic notion of insanity as a kind of anti-societal enlightenment. Besides already having been flogged to death, the notion of the insane as somehow lucky is grotesquely unfair to real-life residents of psychiatric institutions, who suffer the completely...
He is not alone in thinking her mentally disturbed. In 1982 a District of Columbia judge appointed Douglass's brother and sister conservators of her affairs on the ground that, among other things, she "had acquired a romantic and unreasonable fixation for the person of the Pope." According to court...
ON THE WHITE BACKGROUND OF THE PORTRAITS FOR IN THE AMERICAN WEST: "The tradition of background space in portraiture tended to be greys, giving a deep romantic quality, implying the sky. White is emptiness, grey is fullness. The edge of the film acts like a box--the empty, unrelenting space...
"It's creepy, it's unnatural," says Norman Gholson '88. "I'm not interested in being romantic with someone who isn't a friend of mine." Adds Mike Eilperin '90, "I'd be afraid of the type of people who respond."